8. In obedience to Jerom and Claudian (in Rufin. l. ii.
191), I have mixed some darker colours in the mild
representation of Zosimus, who wished to soften the
calamities of Athens.
Nec fera Cecropias traxissent vincula matres. Synesius
(Epist. cxxxv. p. 272, edit. Petav.) observes that Athens,
whose sufferings he imputes to the proconsul's avarice, was
at that time less famous for her schools of philosophy than
for her trade of honey.