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At last, however, he yielded to insistent prayers, and ordered that some persons should precede the ill-omened bier of the body-snatcherCf. Suet., Aug. 100, 4. to the tomb, marching with bare heads and feet,A sign of mourning; cf. Apul., Metam. iii. 1. some also with folded hands.Cf. xxviii. 1, 15. My mind shrinks from recalling, during that suspension of justice,Cf. mundanum fulgorem, xiv. 6, 3. how many men of the highest rank, especially exconsuls, after having carried the staves of honour and worn purple robes, and having their names made known to all the world 10 in the Roman calendar, were seen exposed to humiliation.
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Conspicuous among all of these was our Hypatius, a man recommended from his youth by noble virtues, of quiet and calm discretion, and of a nobility and gentleness measured as it were by the plumb-line;See xiv. 8, 11, note 2; xxi. 16, 3, note 4. he conferred honour on the fame of his ancestorsCf. C.I.L. i. part 2, ed. 2, 15 (epitaph of Scipio Hispanus), virtutes generis mieis mribus accumulavi. and himself gave glory to posterity by the admirable acts of his two prefectures.At a later time; Flavius Hypatius was prefect of Rome in 397, praetorian prefect in 382 and 383.
