[305] “A great city, a great desert.”
[306] Sarsaparilla.
[307] A liquid matter of a pungent smell, extracted from a portion of the body of the beaver.
[308] “Partakers of cares.”
[309] Plutarch (Vit. Pomp. 19) relates that Pompey said this upon Sylla’s refusal to give him a triumph.
[310] Plut. Vit. J. Cæs. 64.
[311] Cic. Philip. xiii. 11.
[312] “These things, by reason of our friendship, I have not concealed from you.”—Vide Tac. Ann. iv. 40.
[313] Dio Cass. lxxv.
[314] Such infamous men as Tiberius and Sejanus hardly deserve this commendation.