General Note. ———————————— ( Vexillas ,—as they are called, p. 399.) It is very curious to note how certain ideas are inherited from the earliest Fathers, and travel down, as here, to find a new expression in a distant age. Here our author reflects Justin Martyr, 3190 and the Labarum 3191 itself is the outcrop of what Justin wrote to Antoninus Pius. 3190     See vol. i. p. 181, this series. 3191     See p. 285, supra , under the Emperors .