[1] “Vehiculorum ridicule Koch,” says Gertz, justly, “vitiorum makes excellent sense.”—J. E. B. M.
[2] The murder of Pompeius, B.C. 48. Achillas and Theodotus acted under the nominal orders of Ptolemy XII., Cleopatra’s brother, then about seventeen years of age.
[3] See “De Clem.” ii. 6, 4, I emended many years ago ένὸς χανόντος με ΤΕΣΧΗΚεν into ἐ. χ., με ΤΑΚΕΧΗΝεν ἄτερος: “when one has yawned, the other yawns.”—J. E. B. M.
[4] The voting-place in the Campus Martius.
[5] Ovid, Metamorphoses, i., 144, sqq. The same lines are quoted in the essay on Benefits, v. 15.
[6] I.e., he can plead that he kept the beaten track.
[7] De Clem. i. 12, 5.
[8] Compare Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar,” Act v. Sc. 5:—
“His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him, that nature might stand up
And say to all the world, this was a man!”