Note 067 At the first summons he flies to the turbot-council; yet Juvenal (Satir. iv. 75 - 81) styles the praefect or bailiff of Rome sanctissimus legum interpres. From his science, says the old scholiast, he was called, not a man, but a book. He derived the singular name of Pegasus from the galley which his father commanded.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 44