Note 041

Par exstans curis, solo diademate dispar, Ordine pro rerum vocitatus Cura-Palati;

says the African Corippus, (de Laudibus Justini, l. i. 136,) and in the same century (the vith) Cassiodorus represents him, who, virgá aureâ decoratus, inter numerosa obsequia primus ante pedes regis incederet (Variar. vii. 5.) But this great officer, unknown, Ancient Greek

exercising no function Ancient Greek

was cast down by the modern Greeks to the xv^th rank, (Codin. c. 5, p. 65.)

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