were sung, in a more licentious tone, on the wedding night.] [Footnote 59: Calet obvius ire Jam princeps, tardumque cupit discedere solem. Nobilis haud aliter sonipes. (De Nuptiis Honor. et Mariae, and more freely in the Fescennines 112-116) Dices, O quoties,hoc mihi dulcius Quam flavos decics vincere Sarmatas. .... Tum victor madido prosilias toro, Nocturni referens vulnera proelii.] [Footnote 60: See Zosimus, l. v. p. 333.] [Footnote 61: Procopius de Bell. Gothico, l. i. c. 2. I have borrowed the general practice of Honorius, without adopting the singular, and indeed improbable tale, which is related by the Greek historian.] [Footnote 62: The lessons of Theodosius, or rather Claudian, (iv. Cons. Honor 214-418,) might compose a fine institution for the future prince of a great and free nation. It was far above Honorius, and his degenerate subjects.] Chapter XXX: Revolt Of The Goths.--Part I. Revolt Of The Goths.--They Plunder Greece.--Two Great Invasions Of Italy By Alaric And Radagaisus.--They Are Repulsed By Stilicho.--The Germans Overrun Gaul.--Usurpation Of Constantine In The West.--Disgrace And Death Of Stilicho. If the subjects of Rome could be ignorant of their obligations to the great Theodosius, they were too soon convinced, how painfully the spirit