But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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Julian of Eclanum
AD 455
“But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I.” These words testify to the authority, power and grace that, as he has asserted, he used to own in his previous days. The more favorable his state of former happiness had been, the more bitter now it makes his feeling of pain after turning into misfortune.
“Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.” He now refers to an evidence of extreme poverty, through which also the vileness of his condition appears, not only the fact that he lives on charity but also that he is appointed to take care of the food of dogs.
