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It is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction not to say, suggestion; a circumstance which was long remembered, and was afterwards noticed by the Christian poet Prudentius: "Idque Deum sortes et Apollinis antra dederunt Consilium: nunquam melius nam caedere taedas Responsum est, quam cum praegnans nova nupta jugatur."
Careful and prudent, cf. our author's character of the same commander, His. 2, 25: cunctator natura, etc. Approbavit==fecit, ut ei probarentur. Dr. It is a constructio praegnans. He obtained the first rudiments of a military education under Paullinus, and he gained his approbation. Electus aestimaret. Young men of rank and promise were thus associated with Roman commanders. Cf. Suet., Caes. 2.