Note V — Second Book

P. 36, c. 22. Sidonius Apollinaris (d. 480), the leading literary man of his time in Gaul, was bishop of Clermont the last ten years of his life. Gregory’s work on the masses written by him is lost. Although Gregory was born more than fifty years after Sidonius’ death, he speaks in this intimate way of the former bishop of the place of his birth. On Sidonius see Dill, Society in the Last Century of the Roman Empire, c. iv. Sidonius’ Letters have just been translated by R. M. Dalton, Oxford, 1915.