155) gave the first hint of this curious and genuine passage, (Jortin's Remarks, vol.iv.p.

366,) which he had received from Rome, and it has been since published in the Menagiana (tom.iii.p.

254--259) with a Latin version.] [Footnote 24: After the mention of a narrow girdle, (as none could appear stark naked in the theatre,) Procopius thus proceeds.

I have heard that a learned prelate, now deceased, was fond of quoting this passage in conversation.] [Footnote 25: Theodora surpassed the Crispa of Ausonius, (Epigram lxxi.,) who imitated the capitalis luxus of the females of Nola.

See Quintilian Institut.viii.6, and Torrentius ad Horat.Sermon.l.