46. Claud. Rutil. Numatian. Itinerar. lib. i. 439-448. He
afterwards (ib. 515-526) mentions a religious madman on the
isle of Gorgona. For such profane remarks, Rutilius and his
accomplices are styled, by his commentator Barthius, rabiosi
canes diaboli. Tillemont (Mem. Eccles. tom. xii. p. 471)
more calmly observes that the unbelieving poet praises where
he means to censure.