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(Vexillas,—as they are called, p. 399.)

It is very curious to note how certain ideas are inherited from the earliest Fathers, and travel down, as here, to find a new expression in a distant age. Here our author reflects Justin Martyr,³¹⁹⁰

3190 See vol. i. p. 181, this series.

3191 See p. 285, supra, under the Emperors.

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