Note 102 See the probable advice of Sallust (Greg. Nazianzen, Orat. iii. 90, 91). Libanius intercedes for a similar offender, lest they should find many Marks; yet he allows that, if Orion had secreted the consecrated wealth, he deserved to suffer the punishment of Marsyas - to be flayed alive (Epist. 730, p. 349-351) .

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 23