153. Sidonius Apollinaris (1. v. Epist. 9, p. 139, and Not.
Sirmond. p. 58), after stigmatising the 'inconstancy' of
Constantine, the 'facility' of Jovinus the 'perfidy' of
Gerontius, continues to observe that all the vices of these
tyrants were united in the person of Dardanus. Yet the
praefect supported a respectable character in the world, and
even in the church; held a devout correspondence with St.
Augustin and St. Jerom; and was complimented by the latter
(tom. iii. p. 66) with the epithets of Christianorum
Nobilissime and Nobilium Christianissime.