Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks / Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain

by Edward Wortley Montagu

[249] Dionys. Halicarn. id. ibid.

[250] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 5. p. 205.

[251] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 5. p. 247.

[252] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 6. p. 255.

[253] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 6. p. 266.

[254] I have chiefly followed Livy in his beautiful relation of this affair, as the description he gives of this unhappy object, is not only much more striking than that of Dionysius, but one of the most pathetick I ever met with in history. Liv. lib. 2. p. 92.

[255] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 61. p. 268.

[256] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 6. p. 270.

[257] Dionys. Halicarn. lib. 6. p. 276...77.

[258] It is remarkable that Appius terms the aristocracy, which at that very time was hardly seventeen years standing, the form of government which they had inherited from their ancestors.