Ante expectatum positis stat in agmine castris.
Georg. iii. 348.
270 – The reading here varies. Ben. has ‘in Concilio Nicaeni
tractatus,’ which may mean ‘the Council which made the
Nicene Creed,’ (for the phrase ‘Nicaenus tractatus’
as applied to the Creed see note 1 on Acts of Council
of Aquileia.) Another reading is ‘in Concilii Nicaeni
tractatu,’ and another ‘in Concilio Nicaeno tractatus.’
There is a difficulty about S. Ambrose’s statement,
as there is nothing on the subject in the Canons of
Nicaea. The Benedictine editors, after discussing other
explanations, suggest that S. Ambrose may have had an
inaccurate copy of the Canons, with the one he here
quotes inserted from some other Council. Some unauthentic
documents professing to give Nicene regulations on the
subject are quoted in Dict. of Christian Antiq. Art.
Digamy.