[67] Arbuthnott on Ancient Coins, c. 5. Gibbon, i. 90, c. ii.
[68] Greaves on Ancient Coins, i. 229, 331.
[69] Gibbon, c. 36, vol. vi. 173.
[70] See Edinburgh Review. No. 168. April 1846.
[71] There are now 20,000,000 inhabitants in Italy, and it was certainly as populous in the time of Augustus, when Rome alone, which now has 180,000, contained 2,386,000 souls.
[72] Le Peuple. Par J. Michelet.
[73] Du Feu Greçois, des Feux de Guerre, et des Origines de la Poudre-à-Canon. Par MM. Reinaud et Favé.
[74] ————"Conductâ Paulus agebat Sardonyche."—Juv. Sat. vii.
[75] Poor Seneca, for a moral philosopher, seems to have been somewhat harshly handled: here patronised by cheats and gamblers, and here censured by philosophy and dissent! Now invoked by Rusca to assist him in his ingannations; now lugged on the stage to be commented on by the valet of a gambler,[*] as he debits him, for his master's consolation, under his losses; here glanced at by Coleridge for his splendid "inconsistencies;" and here by the sour Dissenter, who accuses our Church's ministers of borrowing their sermons from his precepts.
"Preaching the trash they purchase at the stalls,
And more like Seneca's, than HIS!! or Paul's!"