In other words, to show what we call an esprit de corps.

Theologians.

2 Cor. xi. 23.

“I will magnify my apostleship.” He alludes to the words in Romans xi. 13: “Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office.”

Vaunting, or boasting.

Noise. We have a corresponding proverb: “Great cry and little wool.”

A high or good opinion.

Vide Liv. xxxvii. 48.

By express command.

“Those who write books on despising glory, set their names in the title-page.” He quotes from Cicero’s “Tusculanæ Disputationes,” b. i. c. 15,