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 496 APPENDIX 12. WORSHIP OF RELICS— (P- 210) In Gregory Nyssen's Encomium of St. Theodore (Migne, vol. 46. 736 sqq. there are passages, which, coming from such an eminent and learned ecclesiastic, are an imjwrtant illustration of the growth of the veneration of relics. For example, he says : — ei &k Kai k6vlv n? iotrj <^ipeiv t^/I- iniKtiixiv-qv TTJ «7ri</)afec'if rri^ KcaTravcreajs, Suipoy b ovf Kati^averai, koX ojs Ket-ii-qKiov i) yir) Sijtroupt'^eTat. to yap avTov Tov eijjd.vov irpocTa.xftaa'dai, el nore Tts eTriTUxia TOiavn) 7rapao"xoi ttjv cfovo't'oi', ottus i(rri novTr66iqTov, 'koi evx^ji ttJs avuiTOLTui to SCipov l<ra<ri.v oi TreJretpafieVot Kai T^9 TOtavTTjs iniOviJ-ia^ 6fi<J)opi)S«i'Tes ... to /ii€v airAwj arrodavov pCn-reraL <us Tb Tyxov • TO 5e T<3 TTofiei ToO pjxpTvpiov apiTO)dev, ovtu; eorli' epacrfiiov KoX afi</)to'j37)T^(rijiOi', (oS o TrpoKafiuv Adyos eStSofev (p. 740). 13. STILICHO IN INSCREPTIOXS— (P. 225, 237, 257) The inscription celebrating the rescue of Africa by Stilicho, referred to by Gibbon, p. 225 (note) ad p. 237 (note), will be foimd in C. I. L. vi. 1730. It runs as follows : Flavio Stilichoni inlustrissimo viro, magistro equitum peditumque comiti domesticorum, tribuno prjetoriano, et ab ineunte aetate per gradus clarissim?e militire ad columen sempiternse et regis; adfinitatis evecto, progenero Divi Theodosi, comiti Divi Thoodosi in omnibiis bellis adque ictoriis et ab eo in adfinitatem regiam cooptato itemque socero D. N. Honori Augusti Africa consiliis sius et provisione liberata. For inscriptions referring to the restoration of the "walls, gates and towers of Rome, undertaken through Stilicho's influence before Alaric's first invasion of Italy, see C. I. L. ^^. 1188-1190. Another inscription records Stilicho's 'ictory over Radagaisus : C. I. L. 6, 1196 (p. 249). Gibbon (after Mascou) refers it to the Gothic war of 402-3, and expresses surprise at the description of Alaric's defeat as the total extinction of the Gothic nation (p. 243). Pallmann took the same view (Volkerwand. p. 243) ; but the title is rightly referred in the Corpus (loc. cit.) to the events of 405. Imppp. clementissimis felicissimis toto orbe victoribus DDD NKn Arcadio Honorio Theodosio Auggg. ad perenne indicium triximphorum quod Getarum nationem in omne ieTim docucrc extingui arcum simulacris eorum tropsisq decorafztm S. P. Q. R. totius operis splendore. 14. THE TAVO EASTERN EXPEDITIONS OF STILICHO AND HIS ILLYRIC POLICY— (P. 227, 245) An unwarj' reader of Gibbon might fail to realize that on two separate occasions Stilicho came, an unwelcome helper, to the assistance of Arcadius in the Illyric peninsula. As there has been a difficulty about the dates, and as Zosimus inverts the order of events, it is important to grasp this clearly. On the first occasion (a.p. 395) Stilicho started from Italy in spring (Claudian, in Rufin. 2, 101), came up with Alaric in Thessaly, and was then conamanded to return, before he had accomplished anj-thing, by an order of Arcadius. Gainas and the Eastern troops went to Constantinople, and Rufinus met his fate ; while Stilicho retiu-ned to Italy. In the following year (a.d. 396), when Alaric was in Southern Greece, Stilicho again came to help the realm of Arcadius, landed at Corinth, blockaded Alaric in Pholoe, and allowed him to escape. (Zosimus V. 7, places the blockade of Pholoe before the death of Rufinus. The charge of Zosimus that Stilicho indidged in debauchery in Elis cannot safelj- be pressed ; for the phrase he uses is borrowed from Julian's Slisopogon. See Mendelssohn ad. loc.)