⁹³Considering the tone official language then took Leo cannot be accused of exaggerated flattery.

⁹⁴Lest we attach too much importance to these flattering titles in the Eastern world, we should notice that the same title is applied to Dioscorus at Ephesus (Labbe, iv. 270, 472 A, 479 E; Tillem. xv. 564).

⁹⁵I. e. at that stated period of the year when offerings were made in the Roman church, by an old custom instituted in place of a still older pagan solemnity; cf. Admonit.In Serm. vi. Migne.

⁹⁶It appears probable that Ep. cxx. (to Theodoret) was written by a secretary, and that Leo's personal salutation is added at the end. See concluding words, "et alia manu, Deus to incolumem custodiat, frater charissime." Cf. conclusion of Ep. cxxiii. (Proterius to Leo), and Marcian's letter, Ep. c.

⁹⁷In particular an account of a hymn supposed to have been sung on the night before the crucifixion by the apostles holding hands and forming a circle about our Lord (see Aug. Ep. 237 ad Ceretium, vol. ii. p. 849).