155. Socrates (1. iv. c. 31) is the only original witness of
this foolish story, so repugnant to the laws and manners of
the Romans, that it scarcely deserved the formal and
elaborate dissertation of M. Bonamy (Mem. de l'Academie,
tom. xxx. p. 394-405). Yet I would preserve the natural
circumstance of the bath, instead of following Zosimus, who
represents Justina as an old woman, the widow of Magnentius.