Part 23

101 (return) [ Civita Vecchia.]

102 (return) [ Trajan.]

103 (return) [ An officer in the Roman legions, answering in some sort to a captain In our companies. M.]

104 (return) [ This law was made by Augustus Cæsar; but it nowhere clearly appears what was the peculiar punishment it inflicted. M.]

105 (return) [ An officer employed by the emperor to receive and regulate the public revenue in the provinces. M.]

106 (return) [ Comprehending Transylvania, Moldavia, and Walaehia. M.]

107 (return) [ Polycletus was a freedman, and great favourite of Nero. M.]

108 (return) [ Memmius, or Rhemmius (the critics are not agreed which), was author of a law by which it was enacted that whosoever was convicted of calumny and false accusation should be stigmatised with a mark in his forehead; and by the law of the twelve tables, false accusers were to suffer the same punishment as would have been inflicted upon the person unjustly accused if the crime had been proved. M.]

109 (return) [ Trajan.]

110 (return) [ Unction was much esteemed and prescribed by the ancients. Celsus expressly recommends it in the remission of acute distempers: "ungi leniterque pertractari corpus, etiam in acutic et recentibus niorbis opartet; us rernissione fumen," &c. Celsi Med. ed. Aliucloveen, p. 88. M.]

111 (return) [ His wife.]

112 (return) [ See book V. letter XX.]

113 (return) [ Trajan.]

114 (return) [ One of the Bithynians employed to manage the trial. M.]

115 (return) [ About $28,000.]

116 (return) [ About $26,000.]

117 (return) [ There is a kind of witticism in this expression, which will be lost to the mere English reader unless he be informed that the Romans had a privilege, confirmed to them by several laws which passed in the earlier ages of the republic, of appealing from the decisions of the magistrates to the general assembly of the people: and they did so in the form of words which Pomponius here applies to a different purpose. M.]

118 (return) [ The priests, as well as other magistrates, exhibited public games to the people when they entered upon their office. M.]

119 (return) [ A famous lawyer who flourished in the reign of the emperor Claudius: those who followed his opinions were said to be Cassians, or of the school of Cassius. M.]

120 (return) [ A Stoic philosopher and native of Tarsus. He was tutor for some time to Octavius, afterwards Augustus, Cæsar.]

121 (return) [ Balzac very prettily observes: "Il y a des riviere: qui ne font jamais tact de bien que quand elles se dibordent; de eneme, l'amitie n'a mealleur quo l'exces." M.]

122 (return) [ Persons of rank and literature among the Romans retained in their families a domestic whose sole business was to read to them. M.]

123 (return) [ It was a doctrine maintained by the Stoics that all crimes are equal M.]

124 (return) [ About $400.]

125 (return) [ About $600.]

126 (return) [ About $93.]

127 (return) [ Hom. II. lib. IX. V. 319.]

128 (return) [ Those of Nero and Domitian. M.]