[69] See Poggio, De Vanitate Fortunæ.
[70] This inscription, found in the catacomb of S. Agnese, runs:
"Sic præmia servas Vespasiane dire
Premiatus es morte Gaudenti letare
Civitatis ubi gloriæ tuæ autori,
Promisit iste Kristus omnia tibi
Quï alium paravit theatrum in cœlo."
[71] See Hemans' Catholic Italy.
[72] A work has been published by S. Deakin on the Flora of the Coliseum. This was very remarkable, but has greatly suffered during the so-called cleansing of the building by the Italian government in 1871.
[73] Quamdiu stat Colysæus, stabit et Roma; quando cadet Colysæus, cadet Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus.
[74] See Ampère, Hist. Rom. ii. 289—292.
[75] "Quis a signo Vertumni in circum maximum venit, quin is unoquoque gradu de avaritia tua commoneretur? quam tu viam tensarum atque pompæ ejus modi exegisti, ut tu ipse ire non audeas."—In Verrem, i. 59.
[76] Varro, de Ling. Lat. v. 44. See Ampère, Hist. Rom. ii. 32.
[77] Varro, de Ling. Lat. iv. 8.