[8] The hand-bandages worn in pugilistic combats.
[9] One of the many calumnies popular among the heathens.
[10] This scene is taken from a real occurrence.
[11] Church and gate of San Pancrazio.
[12] Old St. Pancras’s Church, London, the favorite burial-place of Catholics, till they had cemeteries of their own.
[13] Anastastasius, Biblioth, in vita Honorii.
[14] Pronounced with the accent on the i.
[15] The milk of 500 asses per day was required to furnish Poppæa, Nero’s wife, with one cosmetic.
[16] The dining-hall.
[17] Black antimony applied on the eyelids.