v.lvii.p.

61 .-- M.] [Footnote 118: National vanity has made him a Florentine, or a Spaniard.
But the first Epistle of Claudian proves him a native of Alexandria, (Fabricius, Bibliot.Latin.tom.iii.p.

191-202, edit.

Ernest.)] [Footnote 119: His first Latin verses were composed during the consulship of Probinus, A.D.

395.
Romanos bibimus primum, te consule, fontes, Et Latiae cessit Graia Thalia togae.
Besides some Greek epigrams, which are still extant, the Latin poet had composed, in Greek, the Antiquities of Tarsus, Anazarbus, Berytus, Nice, &c.