[116] Hist. Aug. Car. 9. Hel. 17. Al. Sev. 25.
[117] Olymp. ap. Phot. Bibl. 80, p. 63. Bekker.
[118] Cor. Insc. Lat. vol. i. p. 12.
[119] Marini, Frat. Arv. p. 674.
[120] Eckhel, Num. Vet. ii. 6. 176.
[121] Frontin. 76.
[122] See Woodcut on p. 179.
[123] Ibid. p. 180.
[124] Plin. Ep. ii. 17. The depopulation of the Campagna began even in the time of the later Republic. See Appian, B.C., i. 7. In the Antonine era and the following reigns, pestilence and famine swept off millions of inhabitants. Zumpt, ‘Stand der Bevölkerung,’ p. 84, quoted by Merivale, vol. vii. p. 610.
[125] Cic. de Or. ii. 6. Val. Max. viii. 8. See Mommsen, R. H. i. 13, p. 200.