[56] G. B. ii. 24.
[57] Macrobius himself is an author of the fourth or fifth century of our era. Macrobius, i. x. 2; Livy, ii. xxi. 2.
[58] Cumont, Revue de Philologie, July 1897, vol. xxi. p. 149, citing Mommsen, C.I.L. I2 p. 337, and Marquhardt, Staatsverw. iii.2 587.
[59] Lucian, Saturnalia, 2.
[60] Macrobius, i. vii. 31-33.
[61] The reason was probably a mere 'blind' for wife-murder.
[62] G. B. iii. p. 140.
[63] Analecta Bollandiana, xvi. pp. 5-16.
[64] G. B. iii. p. 143.
[65] G. B. iii. p. 144.