Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire
Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire
Samuel Dill
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In the time of Ausonius we have caught some glimpses of the ascetic and the intellectual side of the Christian life in Gaul, revealing a spiritual movement in striking contrast to the polished worldly society of the senatorial order, in which class-pride had taken the place of high public spirit, and a dilettante culture had frozen the Digiti zed by Google CH. IV SOCIETY OF APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS 213 springs of moral enthusiasm and energy. The majority of this class, two generations after Ausoniu...s was in his grave, resembled him rather than S. Paulinus. Tet here and there in the letters of Sidonius we meet with a mcui who remained in the world, yet was not of it, who, with- out acting literally on the command to forsake all things for Christ, strove to live in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount The character of one of these hidden saints,^ a certain Vectius, might have been drawn by the author of the Serious Call. He was a mem of illustrious rank and great fortune, but he had learnt the secret of '' using the world as not abusing it." He has all the spirit of an anchoret under the soldier's cloak, and regards his position as a trust rather than a property.^ The spirit of their master had spread among his serfs and clients.
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