Note 036
Claudian turns the consulship of the eunuch Eutropius into a national reflection (l. ii. 135):
__Plaudentem cerne senatum,
Et Byzantinos proceres, Graiosque Quirites:
O patribus plebes, O digni consule patres.
It is curious to observe the first symptoms of jealousy and schism between old and new Rome, between the Greeks and Latins.
The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 29