As once (a feat on which ourselves we prided)
Leander, Mr. Ekenhead, and I did.”
Byron, “Don Juan,” cant. ii. 105.
[335] Plin. ix. 15. Horat. ii. Sat. v. 44. Ovid, in Halieut. v. 98.
[336] Gibbon, ch. xxvi.
[337] Gibbon, ch. xvii.
[338] Cod. Justinian, bk. ii. tit. i. sec. 3. By this code six per cent. was pronounced to be the ordinary and legal standard of interest; eight was allowed for the convenience of manufacturers and merchants, while twelve was granted to nautical insurance.
[339] Theodosian Code, bk. xiii. tit. v. secs. 14, 16, and 18.
[340] Book xiii. tit. vi. secs. 5-10.
[341] Livy, xxx. 45. Plin. xxxiii. 50. Gibbon, ch. xxxi., quoting from Ammianus Marcellinus.