[8] Laws, ii. 653. In this and subsequent passages Jowett’s translation is used.

[9] Laws, vii. 797.

[10] Laws, ii. 664.

[11] Epigrammata Despota, DCCXI.

[12] D’Arcy W. Thompson, in his Ancient Leaves.

[13] Theodore Martin’s translation.

[14] Silvæ, v. 5, 79-87.

[15] Contributors’ Club, Atlantic Monthly, June, 1881.

[16] De Rerum Natura, V. 222-227, cited in Sellar’s The Roman Poets of the Republic, p. 396.

[17] Ibid. III. 894-896. Sellar, p. 364.