Note 009 Jerom. in Chron. The poverty of Lactantius may be applied either to the praise of the disinterested philosopher, or to the shame of the unfeeling patron. See Tillemont, Mem. Ecclesiast. tom. vi part i. p. 345. Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiast. tom i. p. 205. Lardner's Credibility of the Gospel History, part ii. vol. vii. p. 66.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon