[Note 6]. Page 43.
The Bacchanalians.—The orgies of this pseudo-religious body had been denounced and suppressed in B.C. 186.—See Livy, xxxix. 9-14.
[Note 7]. Page 44.
Nero’s poetry.—The lines of Persius, Sat. i. 92-105, have been supposed to contain these quotations from Nero’s poems.
[Note 8]. Page 51.
Seneca’s flatteries.—The opening of Seneca’s De Clementia abounds in this fulsome and impolitic flattery.
[Note 9]. Page 52.
For these self-criticisms of Seneca, see Ep. xlv. lxxx. &c.; De Vit. Beat. 3.
[Note 10]. Page 60.
Nero really made this jest.—Tac. Ann. xiv. 14.