[9] See pages 184 and 197.
[10] Corinth offered too good a site to remain long in ruins. Resettled in 46 B.C. as a Roman colony, it soon became one of the great cities in the empire. It was to the Corinthians that St Paul wrote two of his Epistles.
[11] The Greeks were not again a free people until the nineteenth century of our era. In 1821 A.D. they rose against their Turkish masters in a glorious struggle for liberty. Eight years later the powers of Europe forced the Sultan to recognize the freedom of Greece. That country then became an independent kingdom, with its capital at Athens.
[12] See pages 39-40 and 104.
[13] In 133 B.C. there were eight provinces—Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, Hither Spain, Farther Spain, Illyricum, Africa, Macedonia, and Asia. See the map facing page 184.
[14] In the New Testament "publicans and sinners" are mentioned side by side. See Matthew, ix, 10.
[15] Latifundia perdidere Italiam (Pliny, Natural History, xviii, 7).
[16] See page 155.
[17] Horace, Epistles, ii, 1, 156.
[18] See page 103.