[Footnote 57: As he is quoted by Ulpian, (leg.40, 40, ad
Sabinum in Pandect. l. xlvii. tit. ii. leg. 21.) Yet
Trebatius, after he was a leading civilian, que qui familiam
duxit, became an epicurean, (Cicero ad Fam. vii. 5.) Perhaps
he was not constant or sincere in his new sect.
Note: Gibbon had entirely misunderstood this phrase of
Cicero. It was only since his time that the real meaning of
the author was apprehended. Cicero, in enumerating the
qualifications of Trebatius, says, Accedit etiam, quod
familiam ducit in jure civili, singularis memoria, summa
scientia, which means that Trebatius possessed a still
further most important qualification for a student of civil
law, a remarkable memory, &c. This explanation, already
conjectured by G. Menage, Amaenit. Juris Civilis, c. 14, is
found in the dictionary of Scheller, v. Familia, and in the
History of the Roman Law by M. Hugo. Many authors have
asserted, without any proof sufficient to warrant the
conjecture, that Trebatius was of the school of Epicurus -
W.]