[306] Tacitus, b. ii. c. 87.
[307] Gibbon, c. vi., has relied on a passage in Dion., lxxvii., which the best commentators doubt. The edict seems to have been made by M. Antoninus, and was perhaps fathered on Caracalla from his general unpopularity.
[308] Gibbon, c. xl. Procop. Persic, i. 20. Cf. Isidore of Charax in Stathm. Parth., who gives the stations in the Persian empire, and Amm. Marcell. lib. xxiii., who enumerates the provinces.
[309] The Roman laws went further than the game laws of England, as an African was not permitted to kill a lion, even in his own defence.
[310] Pliny, iii. 31.
[311] Sueton. Calig. c. xlv. Mela. iii. 2. Sueton. Claud. c. xvii. Eginhardt says that Charlemagne repaired this tower (Vit. Car. Magn.)
[312] Tacit. Annal. ii. 6. They were mostly broad flat-bottomed boats, with rudders at each end.
[313] The head of Apollo, on the fine tetradrachms of Rhodes, is believed to be a copy of the head of the Colossus.
[314] Strab. xiv. p. 654. In the time of Strabo and Pliny it was lying as it had fallen. Plin. xxxiv. 41.
[315] Justin. Digest. xiv. 2, and the comment thereon by Sir Patrick de Colquhoun (“Summary of the Roman Civil Law,” vol. iii. pp. 137-142.)