[248] Sat i. 8, 15.
[249] See Hemans' Catholic Italy, Part I.
[250] Ampère, Hist. Rom. i. 38.
[251] Varro, de Ling. Lat. iv. 8.
[252] Fest. v. Septimone.
[253] Ampère, Hist. Rom. i. 65.
[254] Fest. p. 297.
[255] Cicero pro doma sua, 38; Dionysius, viii. 79; Livy, ii. 41.
[256] See Dyer's City of Rome, p. 65. The Acts of the Martyrs mention that several Christians suffered "In tellure."
[257] See Ampère, Hist. Rom. iv. 421.