[492] [Note VI.]

[493] [Note VII.]

[494] [Note VIII.]

[495] Crassus, according to Lucilius, only laughed once in his life, and that at the miserable joke in the text.

[496] [Note IX.]

[497] [Note X.]

[498] See the parable of the vineyard, in the gospel of St Matthew, chap. xxi. ver. 33.

[499] [Note XI.]

[500] [Note XII.]

[501] [Note XIII.]