[15] History of Rome, vol. ii., p. 51.

[16] Ibid., p. 52.

[17] Niebuhr's Lecture on the History of Rome, vol. i., p. 125.

[18] Niebuhr's Lectures on Ethnography and Geography, vol. i., p. 141.

[19] Vide Plutarch's, Pericles.

[20] Grote, vol. iv., p. 186.

[21] Freeman's Greater Greece and Greater Britain, Appendix, p. 142.

[22] Contemporary Review, April, 1897.

[23] This learned author subsequently lamented (Atlantic Monthly, October, 1898), that his proposal "fell flat. It was inopportune. It excited no attention in England, though it brought me a few friendly letters from the United States. But the tone of my correspondence was not encouraging."

[24] Atlantic Monthly, July, 1898.