[20] Even on that point he contradicts himself in the next Book. See B. viii. c. 19, and 64, in reference to the lion and the horse.
[21] See B. vii. c. 51.
[22] “Summa vitæ felicitas.” B. vii. c. 54.
[23] B. vii. c. 53.
[24] He loses no opportunity of inveighing against luxury and sensuality.
[25] The question as to a future existence he calls “Manium ambages,” “quiddities about the Manes.” B. vii. c. 56.
[26] See B. vii. c. 53.
[27] We have already seen that in his earlier years he was warned in a vision by Drusus to write the history of the wars in Germany; but there is a vast difference between paying attention to the suggestions of a dream, and believing in the immortality of the soul, or the existence of disembodied spirits.
[28] B. vii. c. 53.
[29] B. vii. c. 58, 59, 60.