tender sympathy which enhanced the value of his services. Compare this
scene with the field of Cannae; and judge between Hannibal and the
successor of St. Cyprian. [11]

* [Footnote 6: The apparant success of Pope Leo may be justified by
Prosper, and the Historia Miscellan.; but the improbable notion of
Baronius A.D. 455, (No. 13) that Genseric spared the three apostolical
churches, is not countenanced even by the doubtful testimony of the
Liber Pontificalis.]

[Footnote 7: The profusion of Catulus, the first who gilt the roof of
the Capitol, was not universally approved, (Plin. Hist. Natur. xxxiii.
18;) but it was far exceeded by the emperor's, and the external
gilding of the temple cost Domitian 12,000 talents, (2,400,000 L.) The
expressions of Claudian and Rutilius (luce metalli oemula.... fastigia
astris, and confunduntque vagos delubra micantia visus) manifestly
prove, that this splendid covering was not removed either by the
Christians or the Goths, (see Donatus, Roma Antiqua, l. ii. c. 6, p.
125.) It should seem that the roof of the Capitol was decorated with
gilt statues, and chariots drawn by four horses.]

[Footnote 8: The curious reader may consult the learned and accurate
treatise of Hadrian Reland, de Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu
Titiano Romae conspicuis, in 12mo. Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1716.]

[Footnote 9: The vessel which transported the relics of the Capitol was
the only one of the whole fleet that suffered shipwreck. If a bigoted
sophist, a Pagan bigot, had mentioned the accident, he might have
rejoiced that this cargo of sacrilege was lost in the sea.]

[Footnote 10: See Victor Vitensis, de Persecut. Vandal. l. i. c. 8, p.
11, 12, edit. Ruinart. Deogratius governed the church of Carthage only
three years. If he had not been privately buried, his corpse would have
been torn piecemeal by the mad devotion of the people.]

[Footnote 11: The general evidence for the death of Maximus, and the
sack of Rome by the Vandals, is comprised in Sidonius, (Panegyr. Avit.
441-450,) Procopius, (de Bell. Vandal. l. i. c. 4, 5, p. 188, 189,
and l. ii. c. 9, p. 255,) Evagrius, (l. ii. c. 7,) Jornandes, (de
Reb. Geticis, c. 45, p. 677,) and the Chronicles of Idatius, Prosper,
Marcellinus, and Theophanes, under the proper year.]

The deaths of Aetius and Valentinian had relaxed the ties which held
the Barbarians of Gaul in peace and subordination. The sea-coast was
infested by the Saxons; the Alemanni and the