194. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. v. ch. 25 ; and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist, b. vii. ch. 22.
195. The Greek text is hopelessly corrupt here. We have followed the judgment of Valesius in our rendering.
196. me/nein . This is the reading suggested by Valesius for the commonly received text ne/mein .
197. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. vi. ch. 1, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist, b. viii. ch. 1.
198. a0stro&logoi . We have readity adopted this emendation from Valesius in the place of the received reading, strato&logoi ; as to the office of whom there is considerable doubt, if indeed (he title or term was known at this period.
199. Compare Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. ix. c. 4.
200. This was sanctioned by a Constitution sent by Arcadius to Eutychian, the successor of Caesarius, A. D. 398. See lib. iv. Codex Theodos. de Haereticis.
201. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. vi. ch. 5, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. viii. ch. 7.
202. Or rather Panteichium. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. vii. ch. 21.
203. Compare Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. viii. ch. 1.
204. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. vi. ch. 6, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist, b. viii. ch. 4.
205. Iapyx. Compare Horace, iii. Od. xxvii. 20.
206. Compare Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. viii. ch. 25, and b. ix. ch. 4.
207. After the death of his empress Eudoxia, Honorius had married first Maria, and afterwards Thermantia. daughter of Stilicho.
208. e0fei~san . Concerning this flight of Eucherius to Rome, and his taking refuge of sanctuary in one of its churches, compare Zosimus de Att. et Alar. b. v., and Socrates. Eccl. Hist. b. vii. ch. 10, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist . b. ix. ch. 6 and 7.
209. to_n po&rton . The port of Rome, not of Ravenna, as Gothofred renders it. According to Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. p. 375, Alaric did not seize upon the port of Ravenna (which was called Classis) till a later occasion.
210. The learned Gothofred incorrectly understands these words to refer to Attalus, and not to Alaric.
211. The lines within [brackets] are not in the Greek text of Philostorgius, but are given here, according to the Latin version by Valesius, as also in all other places where the original is defective.
212. The allusion is to the prophecy of Daniel, ii. 31--45, where the feet of the great image seen by Nebuchodonosor were partly of iron and partly of clay. This prophecy, Philostorgius says, was twice fulfilled in the times of Honorius; firstly, when Adolphus made peace with Honorius, A. D. 412, and, secondly, when he married Placidia, or Flacilla, in the following year.
213. The lines within [brackets] are supplied, as before, from Valesius.
214. This happened A. D. 417.
215. The three usurpers mentioned in this chapter, Jovian, Sebastian, and Heraclian, were all put down in the course of the year A. D. 413, under the consulship of Lucius. Heraclian had been proclaimed consul with Lucius, but, on being proclaimed a public enemy, his name was erased from the public Fasti.
216. Compare Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. ix. ch. 1.
217. shmeiw&seij . C alled, in Latin, "Annotations;"' a general term for the edicts and general orders of the emperors.
218. It is agreed on all hands that the eclipse of the sun mentioned below, happened in the twelfth consulship of Honorius, and the eighth of Theodosius, that is, A. D. 418. Theodosius, accordingly, was at this time in his eighteenth year, having been born A. D. 401.