186. We might derive an additional supply of 301,750
inhabitants from the dioceses of Chalons (Cabillonum) and of
Macon (Matisco); since they contain, the one 200, and the
other 260 parishes. This accession of territory might be
justified by very specious reasons. 1. Chalons and Macon
were undoubtedly within the original jurisdiction of the
Aedui. (See d'Anville, Notice, p. 187, 443.) 2. In the
Notitia of Gaul they are enumerated not as Civitates, but
merely as Castra. 3. They do not appear to have been
episcopal seats before the fifth and sixth centuries. Yet
there is a passage in Eumenius (Panegyr. Vet. viii. [vii.]
7) which very forcibly deters me from extending the
territory of the Aedui, in the reign of Constantine, along
the beautiful banks of the navigable Saone.