142. Barbaros omnium primus, ad usque fasces auxerat et
trabeas consulares. Ammian. l. xxi. c. 10. Eusebius (in Vit.
Constantin. 1. iv. c. 7) and Aurelius Victor seem to confirm
the truth of this assertion; yet in the thirty-two consular
Fasti of the reign of Constantine I cannot discover the name
of a single barbarian. I should therefore interpret the
liberality of that prince as relative to the ornaments,
rather than to the office, of the consulship.