[17.68] See first book of Valerius Maximus; Julius Obsequens on Prodigies; and Discours Sacrés of Ælius Aristides.
[17.69] Augustus (Suet. Aug. 90–92) and even Cæsar, it is said, (but I doubt,) (Plin. Hist. Nat. xxviii. iv. 7) did not escape it.
[17.70] Manilius, Hygin. translations from Aratus.
[17.71] Cic. Pro Archia, 10.
[17.72] Suet. Claud. 25.
[17.73] Jos. Ant. XIX. v. 3.
[17.74] Bereschith rabba ch. lxv. fol. 65b; Du Cange, word matricularius.
[17.75] Cic. De Legibus, ii. 8; Vopiscus. Aurelian, 19.
[17.76] Religio sine superstitione, Orat. fun. Turia i. lines 30–31. See Plu. de Superstit.
[17.77] See Melito, Περὶ ἀληθείας, in Spicilegium Syriacum of Cureto, p. 43, or Spicil. Solesmense of dom Pitra, t. ii. p. xli., to get a good idea of the impression made by it upon the Jews and Christians.