[[154]] Acts xix. 19.

[[155]] Acts viii. 9; xiii. 8.

[[156]] Pind. Od. iv.

[[157]] Plin. I. 28.

[[158]] Cato de Rerustic. c. 160.

[[159]] Psalm lvii. Jer. vii. 17. Eccles. x. 11.

[[160]] Plin. lib. viii. c. 50.

[[161]] Job xl. 25.

[[162]] Ecclus. xii. 13.
"Frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis."—Virgil, Ecl. viii.
"Vipereas rumpo verbis et carmine fauces."—Ovid.

[[163]] Plin. lib. xxviii.