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Updated: October 20, 2026
No sooner had the pageant arrived over against that part of the Portico where we stood, than one and another of Probus's hearers exclaimed: 'Ha! Paul! Paul of Antioch! Behold a Christian servant! And the whole throng turned away in confusion to watch the spectacle. 'An unhappy commentary upon the doctrine, said a Palmyrene to me, as he turned sneeringly away.
They had fought the Emperor Decius, till he, and many of his legionaries, were drowned in a bog in the moment of victory. They had been driven with difficulty back across the Danube by Aurelian, and walled out of the Empire with the Allemanni by Probus's 'Teufels-Mauer, stretching from the Danube to the Rhine. Their time was not yet come by a hundred years.
It was Lambinus who first proved that the pure Latinity of the lives could not, except by magic, be the product of the Theodosian age; and as ancient testimony amply justified the assignment of the life of Atticus to Nepos, and he was known also to have been the author of just such a book as came out under Probus's name, the great scholar boldly drew the conclusion that the series of biographies we possess were the veritable work of Nepos.