25. The council of Eutropius, in Claudian, may be compared
to that of Domitian in the fourth Satire of Juvenal. The
principal members of the former were, juvenes protervi
lascivique senes; one of them had been a cook, a second a
woolcomber. The language of their original profession
exposes their assumed dignity; and their trifling
conversation about tragedies, dancers, etc., is made still
more ridiculous by the importance of the debate.