Note 014 His name was Porphyrius Optatianus. The date of his panegyric, written according to the taste of the age in vile acrostics, is settled by Scaliger ad Euseb. p. 250; Tillemont, tom. iv. p. 607; and Fabricius, Biblioth. Latin. 1. iv. c. 1.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon