[297] Dyer, 115.
[298] Dyer, 115, 116.
[299] Pliny, H. N. xxxvi. 15, 24.
[300] So called from a fountain adorned with the figure of a sow, which once existed here.
[301] "Here rests Hadrian, who found his greatest misfortune in being obliged to command."
[302] There is a chapel dedicated to St. Bridget in S. Paolo fuori Mura. Sion House, in England, was a famous convent of the Brigittines.
[303] See Penny Cyclopædia, and Lewes's Hist. of Philosophy.
[304] Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar, act iii. sc. 2.
[305] So called from a slight hollow, scarcely now perceptible, left by a reservoir made by Agrippa for the public benefit, and used by Nero in his fêtes.
[306] The story of St. Agnes is told by St. Jerome.