FOOTNOTES

[1]The best known of these, and perhaps the most beautiful, is that of Coriolanus, which has descended from Plutarch to Shakespeare, and so become immortal.

[2]The Latin words which expressed these two mutual rights, commercium and connubium, are still in use in various forms in the languages of modern Europe.

[3]The Latin word is fauces, i.e. jaws, etymologically the same word as the hause of our Lakeland, which means a narrow pass.

[4]Greenidge, Roman Public Life, p. 105.

[5]With the exception of the southern Samnites, who joined Hannibal after Cannæ.

[6]This was Fabius Maximus, who has given his name to the familiar phrase, “Fabian tactics.”

[7]Seeley’s Life of Stein, II. 422.

[8]Plutarch’s Lives of Cato the Elder and Æmilius Paullus, which can be read in a translation, will give examples of this better type of education.

[9]In Plutarch’s Life of him, especially chaps, v. and vi., where Plutarch is plainly reproducing the evidence of an eyewitness.

[10]He came of an old Roman patrician family.

[11]See below, [p. 184].

[12]Georgics I, 463 foll.

[13]See below, [p. 206].

[14]From Mr. James Rhoades’s version.

[15]Sir A. H. Layard.

[16]Dill, Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western Empire, 1st edn., p. 163.

[17]This is the title by which the princeps was usually known in the Empire; see e.g. Matt. xxii. 17 foll., or Acts xxv. 10 foll.

[18]By Hastings Crossley: Macmillan & Co.

[19]Bryce, Holy Roman Empire.

[20]This is Mommsen’s definition of Law.