[243] Hone’s Every Day Book, i. 141.
[244] Notes and Queries, vol. ii. p. 67.
[245] Crimes Célèbres.
[246] Crimes Célèbres, (Dumas.)
[247] Roman Antiquities, by Fuss, § 62.
[248] Blair’s Roman Slavery, 97; and see note 50, p. 241.
[249] Pliny, xxxiii.
[250] Lacrim. Etrus., (Sylv. iii. 3,) “lævæque ignobile ferrum.”
[251] Vol. i. book x.
[252] We write at a time when a subscription is going among the inhabitants of New-York for the purchase of this collection; and already have private citizens subscribed to the amount of $25,000. This tells well for republican individual enterprise and taste.