558 ([return])
[ Nais seems to have been a freedwoman, who had been allowed to adopt the family name of her master.]
559 ([return])
[ By one of those fictions of law, which have abounded in all systems of jurisprudence, a nominal alienation of his property was made in the testator’s life-time.]
560 ([return])
[ The suggestion offered (note, p. 123), that the Argentarii, like the goldsmiths of the middle ages, combined the business of bankers, or money-changers, with dealings in gold and silver plate, is confirmed by this passage. It does not, however, appear that they were artificers of the precious metals, though they dealt in old and current coins, sculptured vessels, gems, and precious stones.]
561 ([return])
[ Pyrgi was a town of the ancient Etruria, near Antium, on the sea-coast, but it has long been destroyed.]
562 ([return])
[ A.U.C. 791; A.D. 39.]