Note 773 — Chapter VII · DESCRIPTION OF THE OUTWARD MAN.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
It is true that many decaying literatures are full of painfully minute descriptions. See e.g. in Sidonius Apollinaris the descriptions of a Visigoth king (Epist. i. 2), of a personal enemy (Epist. iii. 13), and in his poems the types of the different German tribes.