[222] “Jam ad spectaculum supplicii nostri populus convenerat: jam ostentata per arenam periturorum corpora mortis suæ pompam duxerant.” (Quinctil., Decl. 9.)

[223] Lampridii Commodus Antoninus, 16.

[224] “Contra consuetudinem (Commodus) pænulatos jussit spectatores, non togatos ad munus convenire, quod funeribus solebat, ipse in pullis vestimentis præsidens. Galea ejus per portam Libitinensem elata est.” (Lampridii Commodus Antoninus, ap. Script. Hist. Aug., c. 16.) This circumstance is also mentioned by Dio Cassius, as quoted previously.

[225] “Inter carnifices et fabros Sandapilarum.” (Juvenal, Sat. viii. 175.)

[226] “Ruinart Acta Martyrum Sincera.” (ap. Grævii Thesaurus, tom. ix.)

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“Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei

Vitabit Libitinam.”

(Horatii Odæ, lib. iii. ode 30.)

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