29.)] [Footnote 2:-- Alii per toga ferocis Danubii solidata ruunt; expertaque remis Frangunt stagna rotis.
Claudian and Ovid often amuse their fancy by interchanging the metaphors and properties of liquid water, and solid ice.

Much false wit has been expended in this easy exercise.] [Footnote 3: Jerom, tom.i.p.26.He endeavors to comfort his friend Heliodorus, bishop of Altinum, for the loss of his nephew, Nepotian, by a curious recapitulation of all the public and private misfortunes of the times.

See Tillemont, Mem.Eccles.tom.xii.p.

200, &c.] [Footnote 4: Baltha or bold: origo mirifica, says Jornandes, (c.

29.) This illustrious race long continued to flourish in France, in the Gothic province of Septimania, or Languedoc; under the corrupted appellation of Boax; and a branch of that family afterwards settled in the kingdom of Naples (Grotius in Prolegom.