[26]. “Not one amongst you shall depart without a gift from me.” Æn. v. 305.
[27]. Lib. xiv. epig. 43.
[28].
“Mæcenas goes to tennis, hurtful game
To a weak stomach, and to tender eyes,
So down to sleep with Virgil, Horace lies.”--Francis.
[29]. “Two Hundred and Nine Days,” or “The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent,” by Jefferson Hogg: London, 1827.
[30]. Pope’s Odyssey, lib. v.
[31]. This etymology has been disputed, and it has been said that the holding or keeping possession of the ball is no part of the game; for, during the play, the ball is in continual motion, or passing from one to another. Others seek the etymology of the name, and the origin of the game, in a place in France called Tennois; or, by a change of one letter, Sennois, in the district of Champagne, where balls were first made, and the game, as it is said, first introduced.
[32]. Herodotus speaks of the inhabitants of Lydia having successfully had recourse to gaming as a partial substitute for food, during a famine of many years’ continuance.