There seems to have been a very bad police in Rome; for Cicero says, that if Milo had waylaid Clodius, he would have waited for him in the neighbourhood, where his death might have been attributed to robbers, by reason of the commonness of the accident; and yet Clodius had above sixty servants with him, all armed.
Thirty-eight holidays in the year in France.—Vauban. One hundred and eighty working days at a medium.—Id.
The people commonly live poorest in countries which have the richest natural soil.
600 slaves, working in the silver mines of Athens, yielded a mina a-day to their master Xenophon. He computes that 10,000 slaves would produce a revenue of 100 talents a-year.
The holidays in Athens made two months in the year.—Salmasius.
The public in Athens paid 20 per cent. for money.—Xenophon.
Many of the chief officers of the army were named by the people in old Rome.—Liv. lib. ix. and lib. vii.
The Roman senate were obliged by law to give
their authority to the Comitia Centuriata before the suffrages were called.—Id. lib. viii. cap. 12.
The Pontifices of old Rome suppressed the records of their religion on purpose, as well as those of new Rome.—Id. lib. ix.