396) for the history of gladiators.] [Footnote 57: See the peroration of Prudentius (in Symmach.l.

ii.
1121-1131) who had doubtless read the eloquent invective of Lactantius, (Divin.Institut.l.vi.c.

20.) The Christian apologists have not spared these bloody games, which were introduced in the religious festivals of Paganism.] [Footnote 58: Theodoret, l.v.c.26.I wish to believe the story of St.
Telemachus.

Yet no church has been dedicated, no altar has been erected, to the only monk who died a martyr in the cause of humanity.] [Footnote 5811: Muller, in his valuable Treatise, de Genio, moribus et luxu aevi Theodosiani, is disposed to question the effect produced by the heroic, or rather saintly, death of Telemachus.

No prohibitory law of Honorius is to be found in the Theodosian Code, only the old and imperfect edict of Constantine.