The classical reader will recognise that I have not invented these stories of rural pagan life. They are found in Apuleius.
[Note 34]. Page 318.
The Lemuralia.—See this expiatory rite described in Ovid, Fasti, v. 421-444; and compare Latour St.-Ybars, Néron, pp. 213, 214. The custom is also alluded to in Varro, Vit. Pop. Rom. Fr. 241; Servius ad Æn. i. 276.
[Note 35]. Page 323.
Gladiators’ School.—‘Alebat devotum corpus pravior omni fauce sagina.’—Quinct. ‘Qui dabit immundæ venalia fata saginæ.’—Propert. iv. 8. 25. Δεῖ σε εὐτακτεῖν, ἀναγκοφαγεῖν, ἀπέχεσθαι πεμμάτων, μὴ ψυχρὸν πίνειν.—Epict. Dissert. iii. 15, § 3.
[Note 36]. Page 325.
The gladiator’s oath was comprehensively horrible. ‘In verba Eumolpi sacramentum juravimus uri, vinciri, verberari, ferroque necari, et quicquid aliud Eumolpus jussisset; tamquam legitimi gladiatores domino corpora animosque religiosissime addicimus.’—Petronius.
[Note 37]. Page 330.
Gladiatorial games.—Not one incident is here described which does not find its authority in Martial De Spectaculis, and other epigrams, or in one or other of the many contemporary or later writers of the Empire. See Lipsius, De Gladiatoribus in his Saturnalia.
[Note 38]. Page 334.