99-119) describes their trial (tremuit quos Africa nuper, cernunt rostra reos,) and applauds the restoration of the ancient constitution.

It is here that he introduces the famous sentence, so familiar to the friends of despotism: -- -Nunquam libertas gratior exstat, Quam sub rege pio.
But the freedom which depends on royal piety, scarcely deserves appellation] [Footnote 55: See the Theodosian Code, l.ix.tit.xxxix.leg.

3, tit.
xl.leg.

19.] [Footnote 56: Stilicho, who claimed an equal share in all the victories of Theodosius and his son, particularly asserts, that Africa was recovered by the wisdom of his counsels, (see an inscription produced by Baronius.)] [Footnote 57: I have softened the narrative of Zosimus, which, in its crude simplicity, is almost incredible, (l.v.p.

303.) Orosius damns the victorious general (p.