In the eventful history of a reign of twenty-eight years, it will seldom be necessary to mention the name of the emperor Honorius.
[Footnote 58: Claudian,as the poet laureate, composed a serious and elaborate epithalamium of 340 lines; besides some gay Fescennines, which were sung, in a more licentious tone, on the wedding night.] [Footnote 59: Calet obvius ire Jam princeps, tardumque cupit discedere solem.
Nobilis haud aliter sonipes.
(De Nuptiis Honor.

et Mariae, and more freely in the Fescennines 112-116) Dices, O quoties,hoc mihi dulcius Quam flavos decics vincere Sarmatas.
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Tum victor madido prosilias toro, Nocturni referens vulnera proelii.] [Footnote 60: See Zosimus, l.v.p.

333.] [Footnote 61: Procopius de Bell.

Gothico, l.i.c.2.I have borrowed the general practice of Honorius, without adopting the singular, and indeed improbable tale, which is related by the Greek historian.] [Footnote 62: The lessons of Theodosius, or rather Claudian, (iv.

Cons.
Honor 214-418,) might compose a fine institution for the future prince of a great and free nation.