Note 003

Districtus ensis cui super impia
Cervice pendet, non Siculae dapes
Dulcem elaborabunt saporern:
Non avium citharaeque cantus
Somnum reducent.
Horat. Carm. iii. 1.

Sidonius concludes his letter with the story of Damocles, which Cicero (Tusculan. v. 20, 21) had so inimitably told.

The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 36