4/31 A moderate palace would have covered Cincinnatus's farm of four acres (Val.Max.iv. 4.) In laxitatem ruris excurrunt, says Seneca, Epist.114.See a judicious note of Mr.Hume, Essays, vol.i.p. 562, last 8vo edition.] [Footnote 26: This curious account of Rome, in the reign of Honorius, is found in a fragment of the historian Olympiodorus, ap. 197.] [Footnote 27: The sons of Alypius, of Symmachus, and of Maximus, spent, during their respective praetorships, twelve, or twenty, or forty, centenaries, (or hundred weight of gold.) See Olympiodor.ap.Phot. |