Note 079
From Chapter 18 of the Decline & Fall

The younger Victor assigns to his exile the emphatical appellation of "voluptarium otium." [Epit. c. 41.] Socrates (1. ii. c. 28) is the voucher for the correspondence with the emperor, which would seem to prove that Vetranio was, indeed,

prope ad stultitiam simplicissimus.
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