[11]. “Historia naturalis,” Lib. IX, c. 59.
[12]. Ibid., Lib. XXXVII, c. 2.
[13]. Ibid., Lib. IX, c. 53.
[14]. Ibid., Lib. XXXIII, c. 3. Also Böttiger, “Sabina oder Morgenscenen,” Leipzig, 1803, Vol. I, p. 158.
[15]. Martial, “Epigrammata,” VIII, 81.
[16]. Seneca, “De beneficiis,” Lib. VII, c. 9.
[17]. Pliny, “Historia naturalis,” Lib. IX, c. 35.
[18]. Equivalent to 1,875,000 ounces of silver, worth about $1,300,000 at the present time, but of far greater value in Roman days.
[19]. “Divus Julius Cæsar,” c. 50.
[20]. “Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines,” Paris, 1904, Vol. III, pp. 1595–6.