The Child in Human Progress

by George Henry Payne

[333] This he says by way of palliating the cruelty he was guilty of in his orders to have the child put to death.

[334] Greenidge, Roman Public Life.

[335] Becker’s Gallus, p. 178.

[336] According to Festus (De Verborum Significatione), there was a celibate fine. Cicero, De Leg., iii., 3, and Val. Max., ii., 9, i.

[337] Becker’s Gallus, p. 179.

Apæcides—“I’ faith, money’s a handsome dowry.” Periphanes—“Indeed it is, when it isn’t encumbered with a wife.”—Plautus, Epidicus, act ii., scene i.

[338] Becker’s Gallus, pp. 42 to 46; Suetonius, Claudius, p. 25; Horace, Epistle, ii., 2, 27; Martial, xii., 57, 14; Plautus, Merc., iii., 4, 78; Roman Life Under the Cæsars, Emile Thomas, p. 59.

[339] M. Dezobry, Rome au Siècle d’Auguste, Plautus, Hecyra, Prologue.

[340] “Those funerals with their horns and trumpets meeting in the Forum” was Horace’s idea of the height of noise.

[341] Becker’s Gallus, p. 46; Martial, vii., 61.