This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776. Excerpt: . 500--535.) whohas weighed the several reasons and difficulties with his scrupulous accuracy.

7 In an oration delivered before him, (Panegyr. Vet. ii. 8.) Mamerrinus expresses a doubt whether his hero, in imitating the conduct of Hannibal and Scipio, had ever heard of their names. From thence we may fairly infer, that Maximian was more desirous of being considered as a soldier, than as a man of letters: and it is in this manner that we cart often translate the language of flattery into that of truth. 8 Lactantius de M. P.

c. 8. Aurelius Victor. As among the Panegyrics, we find orations pronounced in praise of Maximian, and others which flatter his adversaries at his expence, we derive some knowledge from the contrast. 9 See the second and third Panegyrics, particularly iii. 3. 10. 14.

but it would be tedious to copy the diffuse and affected expressions of their false eloquence. With regard to the titles, consult Aurel. Victor, Lactantius de M. P. c. 52. Spanheim de Use Numismatum, &c. Dissertat.

xiu. 8. 10 Aurelius Victor. Victor in Epitome. Eutrop. ix. 22. Lactant.

de M. P. c. 8. Hieronym. in Chron. 11 It is only among the modern Greeks that Tillemont can discover his appellation of Chlorus. Any remarkable degree of paleness seems inconsistent with, the rukor mentioned in Panegyric, v.

19. 12 Julian, the grandson of Constantius, boasts that his family was derived from the warlike Maesians. Misopogon, p. 34.8. The Dardanians dwelt on the edge of Maesia. 13 Galerius married Valeria, the daughter of Diocletian; if we speak with strictness, Theodora; the wife of Constantius, was daughter only to the wise of Maximian. Spanheim Dissertat.

xi. 2. 14 This division agrees with that of the four praesectures; yet there is some reason to doubt whether Spa.