[317] Ibid. 2. ‘Nullum vitæ genus est improbius quam eorum qui sine causæ respectu mercede conducti militant, et quibus ibi fas ubi plurima merces.’ Both the sentiment and the expression are borrowed from Lucan’s Pharsalia, x. 408: ‘Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur Venalesque manus; ibi fas ubi plurima merces.’
[318] 364.
[319] Potter’s Greek Antiquities, ii. 9.
[320] Henry’s Britain, iii. 5, 1; Grose i. 56.
[321] Grose, i. 58.
[322] Ibid., i. 67.
[323] Parliamentary Debates, May 24, 1756.
[324] Sir S. Scott’s British Army, ii. 333.
[325] N. Bacon’s Notes to Selden’s Laws, ii. 60.
[326] Candide, c. xx.