[17.8] Suet. Aug. 73; Fun. Orat. on Turia, i, line 30.
[17.9] Ib. 31.
[17.10] The too severe opinion of Paul (Rom. i. 24, &c.) is explicable in the same way. Paul was not acquainted with the higher social life of Rome. Besides, these clerical invectives are not to be taken literally.
[17.11] Sen. Ep. xii., xxiv., xxvi., lviii., lxx.; De Ira. iii. 15. De Tranq. anim. 10.
[17.12] Apoc. xvii.; Cf. Sen. Ep. xcv. 16, &c.
[17.13] Suet. Aug. 48.
[17.14] The inscriptions contain countless examples.
[17.15] Plut. Græc. Ger. Reipubl. xv. 3–4; An seni sit ger. resp., passim.
[17.16] Jos. Ant. xiv., x. 22, 23; Comp. Tacit. Ann. iv. 55, 56. Rutilius Numatianus, Itin. i. 63, &c.
[17.17] “Immensa romanæ pacis majestas.” Plin. Hist. Nat. xxvii. 1.