Note 096
From Chapter 30 of the Decline & Fall

Cum in Constantino inconstantiam . . . execrarentur (Sidonius Apollinaris, 1. v. Epist. 9, p. 139, edit. secund. Sirmond.).

Yet Sidonius might be tempted, by so fair a pun, to stigmatise a prince who had disgraced his grandfather.

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