5. Jamque oblita sui, nec sobria divitiis mens
In miseras leges hominumque negoti a ludit:
Judicat eunuchus . . .
Arma etiam violare parat....
Claudian (in Eutrop. i. 229-270),
with that mixture of indignation and humour which always
pleases in a satiric poet, describes the insolent folly of
the eunuch, the disgrace of the empire, and the joy of the
Goths.
--Gaudet, cum viderit, hostis,
Et sentit jam deesse viros.