124. The curious passage of Ammianus (1. xxx. c. 4), in
which he paints the manners of contemporary lawyers, affords
a strange mixture of sound sense, false rhetoric, and
extravagant satire. Godefroy (Prolegom. ad Cod. Theod. c. i.
p. 185) supports the historian by similar complaints and
authentic facts. In the fourth century many camels might
have been laden with law-books. Eunapius in Vit. Aedesii, p.
72.