History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ekof the New Testament.—En.] 3 Hist. Nat. iii. 6. Saint Augustine says also of Rome: Linguam suam domitis gentibusperpacem societatts imposuit (Civ. Dei, six. 7). 4 Sidon. Apollinaris, iii. 3, v. 18, and Fauriel, Hist, de la Gaule merit!, i. 397. A Gallicinscription, found at Paris, dates from the fourth century (Bull, de la Soc. de. VHist. deParis, March and April, 1877, p. 3fi). Another is to be seen on a vase of the third or fourthcentury discovered at Bourges. Cf. Revue critique, 1S82, p. 131. 6 .
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . ekof the New Testament.—En.] 3 Hist. Nat. iii. 6. Saint Augustine says also of Rome: Linguam suam domitis gentibusperpacem societatts imposuit (Civ. Dei, six. 7). 4 Sidon. Apollinaris, iii. 3, v. 18, and Fauriel, Hist, de la Gaule merit!, i. 397. A Gallicinscription, found at Paris, dates from the fourth century (Bull, de la Soc. de. VHist. deParis, March and April, 1877, p. 3fi). Another is to be seen on a vase of the third or fourthcentury discovered at Bourges. Cf. Revue critique, 1S82, p. 131. 6 . . Nos qui apud Celtas commoramur et in barbarum sermonemplerumque vacamus ( n s. prooem. 3). THE PROVINCES. L61 Gauls in Galatia, although Greek prevailed throughout the Some Italian contemporaries of Marcus Aurelius spokeGallic and Tuscan2 at the very gates of Rome, Umbrian at Igu-vhun,3 Greek in Southern Italy, where, except at Brundusium, noLatin inscriptions are met with. The Emperor Septimius Seveniswas understood to be more fluent in the language of Hannibal. BAS-RELIEF FROM PERGAMUS ; FRAGMENT OF THE GIGANTOMACHIA, REPRESENTING than in that of Scipio. The stepson of Apuleius, though born ofa high family, knew hut a very few Latin or Greek words; hismaternal language was Two centuries later, in thediocese of Saint Augustine, the greater part of the country peo-ple knew no other speech ; and it was still true in the time ofProcopius of the Moors who lived near the Pillars of in Algeria there have been discovered numerous Latin inscrip- 1 Comm. in ad Gal. iii. The reasons which are given for doubting the evidence ofSaint Jerome do not seem to me conclusive. 2 Aulus Gellius, Noct. All. xi. 7. » Breal, Les Tables eugubim s. 4 Rerlin Museum. See in Vol. V. p. 36, another fragment called the Group of Apuleius in the Apologia. VOL. VI. 11 162 THE EMPIRE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. tions containing Carthaginian n
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