[885] Sub v. Epicurus.
[886] Deipn. vi. 105. Eunus was the slave-leader in the Servile War, which began b.c. 130.
[887] The first Roman artist who painted gladiators was Terentius Lucanus (Pliny, N. H. xxxv. 34).
[888] The Mirmillo, alias Gallus, is supposed to be derived from a Keltic word, meaning a fish.
[889] If Nero was the monster represented by the commentaries and the contemporary Christians, we must wonder how this anti-Christ was loved in life by Acte, the ‘sweet and pure-minded Christian’; and why the citizens of Rome sorrowed for his death. And there is much suggestion in the fact that the greatest persecutors of the earliest Christians were the best of the Cæsars, for instance, Vespasian, Titus, Diocletian and Julian.
[890] See the character given to him by Eutropius, viii. 4.
[891] De Morib. Germ. xxxiii.
[892] Mariette, Recueil, No. 92.
[893] The learned Mr. Tylor is notably in error when he informs Mr. Herbert Spencer (Ceremonial Institutions, pp. 174–75) that the Japanese two-sworded man (Samurai) wore sword and dagger. The blades used to be of equal length. Of the Japanese sword I shall treat in Part II.
[894] Copied by Smith (Dict. of Ant. p. 456) from Winckelmann (Monumenta Inedita, Pl. 197): the latter, by the by, was murdered at Trieste.