[164] "Encyc. Brit." vol. iii. p. 436.
[165] Plutarch, "Life of Cato."
[166] Cicero, "Pro Cluent." 66.
[167] Tacitus, "Annals," 42-44.
[168] De Pressensé, "The Religions Before Christ," p. 158.
[169] Milman's "Gibbon's Rome," vol. i. p. 51.
[170] Suetonius, "Caligula," Chap. V.
[171] Fisher, "The Beginnings of Christianity," p. 213.
[172] Pliny, Ep. X. 38.
[173] Suetonius, "Julius Cæsar," Chap. XLIX.