History of Civilization in the Fifth Century volume 1
History of Civilization in the Fifth Century volume 1
Frdric Ozanam
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164 CIVILIZATION IN FIFTH CENTUKT. Infemi raptoris eqnos, efflataque curru Sidera TtBiiario, caligautesque profundse Juuonis thalamos, audaci prodere cantu Mens congesta jubet. * But it was not mere fancy ; in Claudian's errors and forgetfulness there was plenty of political significance. The pagan society that had received the new comer with transport and loaded him with favours, in making him the poet of its predilection, and which consisted chiefly of the senatorial families, had embraced th...e policy, according to the speech of Sallust the rhetorician to Julian, of treating Christianity as a passing whim of some infatuated minds, which would soon fade and leave them to return to the religion of their ancestors. Pagans, formerly so disturbed at these Christians, whom they had treated to menace, to the arenas, execu- tioners, or lions, whom they had accused of treason and a desire to undermine the Empire, contented themselves now with the calmer method of ignoring them as of little account at present, and to be non-existent to posterity.
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