Footnotes
[1.] Double-dyed Tyrian wool cost over £40 in English money per lb. [2.] The term used of St. Paul by the wise men of Athens. It means a picker up of unconsidered trifles which he strings together into an unintelligible system. [3.] A laurel on the Palatine, planted by the wife of Augustus. It died suddenly just before the end of Nero. [4.] The statuette of the Good Shepherd, of beautiful art, 2d century, in the Lateran Museum. It is an error to suppose in early Christians a complete emancipation from old usages and modes of thought. [5.] Probably Dictamnus Fraxinella. For properties of these plants see Pliny, H. N. lib. xxv., xxvi., xxvii. [6.] Our word nuptial comes from the veil wherewith the bride’s head was covered. [7.] The reference was to the “Peace” of Aristophanes. Trygdeus was carried up to the Gods on the back of a dung-beetle. [8.] The allusion was to the death of Claudius attributed to poisoned mushrooms administered to him by his wife-niece Agrippina. [9.] The left was lucky with the Romans, the reverse with the Greeks. [10.] Informers were so termed, because they obtained a quarter of the goods of such as they denounced and who were condemned. The Latin word is quadruplator. [11.] On another occasion, a show of gladiators, this savage order was actually given and carried out under the eyes of Domitian. [12.] The titles of lord and god were given to Domitian by his flatterers, and accepted and used by him, as of right. [13.] There are mosaic pavements at Rome representing a floor after a dinner, with crawfish heads, oyster shells, nuts, picked bones, flower leaves, strewn about. [14.] Calvisius Sabinus, a rich and ignorant man, made one of his slaves learn Homer by heart, another Hesiod and others the nine Greek lyric poets. When he gave a dinner, he concealed them under the table to prompt him with quotations. [15.] A scourge of leather thongs and nails knotted in them. [16.] The Roman benefit Clubs were under the invocation of some god or goddess, and the members were called Cultores Apollinis, or Jovi, as the case might be.