1634, published by James Godefroy, and now extremely scarce) accuses Valentinian and Valens of prohibiting sacrifices.

Some partial order may have been issued by the Eastern emperor; but the idea of any general law is contradicted by the silence of the Code, and the evidence of ecclesiastical history.

Note: See in Reiske's edition of Libanius, tom.
ii.p.155.Sacrific was prohibited by Valens, but not the offering of incense .-- M.] [Footnote 25: See his laws in the Theodosian Code, l.xvi.tit.x.

leg.
7-11.] [Footnote 26: Homer's sacrifices are not accompanied with any inquisition of entrails, (see Feithius, Antiquitat.Homer.l.i.c.

10, 16.) The Tuscans, who produced the first Haruspices, subdued both the Greeks and the Romans, (Cicero de Divinatione, ii.