83. And Claudian's muse, was she asleep? had she been
ill-paid? Methinks the seventh consulship of Honorius (A.D.
407) would have furnished the subject of a noble poem.
Before it was discovered that the state could no longer be
saved, Stilicho (after Romulus, Camillus, and Marius) might
have been worthily surnamed the fourth founder of Rome.