Footnotes
[1.] The dinner or prandium of Rome was the first meal in the day. [2.] A technical term for a school of gladiators trained by the same master. [3.] “Sicarii,” or homicides—bands of assassins, regularly organised in Judæa, who made a trade of murder. [4.]
“You may break, you may ruin, the vase if you will;
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”