Jerom, tom.
ii.p.239.Rufinus understood his own danger; the peaceful city was inflamed by the beldam Marcella, and the rest of Jerom's faction.] [Footnote 29: Jovinian, the enemy of fasts and of celibacy, who was persecuted and insulted by the furious Jerom, (Jortin's Remarks, vol.
iv.p.104, &c.) See the original edict of banishment in the Theodosian Code, xvi.tit.v.leg.

43.] [Footnote 30: This epigram (de Sene Veronensi qui suburbium nusquam egres sus est) is one of the earliest and most pleasing compositions of Claudian.

Cowley's imitation (Hurd's edition, vol.ii.p.

241) has some natural and happy strokes: but it is much inferior to the original portrait, which is evidently drawn from the life.] [Footnote 31: Ingentem meminit parvo qui germine quercum Aequaevumque videt consenuisse nemus.
A neighboring wood born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees.
In this passage, Cowley is perhaps superior to his original; and the English poet, who was a good botanist, has concealed the oaks under a more general expression.] [Footnote 32: Claudian de Bell.Get.

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