A rich patrician, Florentius, indignant at this legalized licentiousness, had made representations on the subject to the emperor.

To induce him to tolerate it no longer, he offered his own property to supply the diminution of the revenue.

The emperor had the baseness to accept his offer--G.] [Footnote 189: Zosimus, l.ii.p.115.There is probably as much passion and prejudice in the attack of Zosimus, as in the elaborate defence of the memory of Constantine by the zealous Dr.Howell.Hist.

of the World, vol.ii.p.

20.] [Footnote 190: Cod.Theod.l.xi.tit vii.leg.