[228] Dyer's Rome, p. 95.
[229] Pliny, Hist. Nat. xv. 35, 2.
[230] Dion Cass. liv.
[231] "De Cæsare vicino scripseram ad te, quia cognoram ex tuis literis, eum σὑνναον, Quirino malo, quam Saluti." Ad Att. xii. 45.
[232] Vespasian had a brother named Sabinus; his son's name recalls that of Titus Tatius.
[233] "Deus, qui inter cætera sapientiæ tuæ miracula etiam in tenera ætate maturæ sanctitatis gratiam contulisti; da, quæsumus, ut beati Stanislai exemplo, tempus, instanter operando, redimentes, in æternam ingredi requiem festinemus."—Collect of St. S. Kostka, Roman Vesper-Book.
[234] Cardinal Wiseman's Life of Pius VII.
[235] By this same master is the interesting fresco of Sixtus IV. and his nephews—now in the Vatican gallery.
[236] The body of this saint is said to repose at S. Lorenzo fuori Mura; his head is at the Quirinal; at S. Lorenzo in Lucina his gridiron and chains are shown.
[237] Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art.