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1055 Juliana, the mother of Demetrias.
1063 Marcellinus was commissioned by the Emperor Honorius to convene a conference of Catholic and Donatist bishops, with a view to the final peaceful settlement of their differences. He accordingly summoned both parties to a conference, held in the summer of 411, in which he pronounced the Catholic party to have completely gained their cause in argument. He proceeded to carry out with considerable rigour the laws passed for the repression of the Donatist schism, and thus becoming obnoxious to that faction, fell at length a victim to their revenge when a turn of fortune favoured their plots against his life. The honour of a place among the martyrs of the early Church has been assigned to him. His character may be learned from Letters CXXXVI., CXXXVIII., CXXXIX., and CXLIII., and particularly from the beautiful tribute to his worth given in Letter CLI., in which the circumstances of his death are recorded.
1064 Compare "ungulis sulcantibus latera." Codex Justin,, ix. 18.7.
1065 Magistris artium liberalium; doubtless the name of Master of Arts was originally connected with the office and work of teaching, instead of being a mere honorary title.
1070 This letter, No. CXXXIV., is addressed to Apringius, and in somewhat similar terms, but at greater length, urges the same request.
1071 We read here "veritas," instead of "virtus."
1072 "Partitio," defined thus by Quintilian vii. 1: "Sit igitur divisio rerum plurium in singulas-partitio, singularum in partes discretas ordo et recta quaedam locatio."
1073 Virgil, Bucol. Ecl. 8, line 13.
1074 Caesurarum modulata variatio.
1077 See Gibbon, chap. xv. vol II p. 326.