In Consulatu honos sine labore suscipitur. (Mamertin. in
Panegyr. Vet. xi. [x.] 2)
This exalted idea of the consulship is borrowed from an Oration (iii. p. 107) pronounced by Julian in the servile court of Constantius. See the Abbe de la Bleterie (Memoires de l'Academie, tom. xxiv. p. 289), who delights to pursue the vestiges of the old constitution, and who sometimes finds them in his copious fancy.