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Footnotes:
[1] The tomb of the Scipios on the Appian Way was discovered in the year 1780, and its inscriptions have been illustrated by the two Viscontis. They are now in the Vatican. The oldest of them, that of L. C. Scipio Barbatus, is of the beginning of the third century B.C.
[2] See Proceedings of Yorkshire Philos. Society, vol. i. p. 53.
[3] Hieronym. ad Es. 7, 14. Augustin Tract. 15 in Evang. Joann.
[4] Kirchmann de Funer. Rom. c. 20, 21. Dodwell, 1, 428.
[5] Sylv. 2, 2, 13.