Footnotes

1.: “Concerning the nature of the Bacchic Stimulus.”
2.: These were the principal conspirators by whom Domitian was slain. They were afterwards butchered by the Prætorians, who regretted the tyrant; and it was supposed to be chiefly in consequence of that slaughter, and its shameful consequences to himself, (for he was compelled, among other insults, to return public thanks to the butchers,) that Nerva called to his aid the personal vigour and high military genius of Trajan.
3.: ——Catonem

Novisti moriens vincere, mollis Otho.
4.: So Pope has rendered the beautiful lines:

Hujus Nympha Loci, sacri custodia fontis,

Dormio, dum blandæ sentio murmur aquæ;

Parce meum, quisquis tangis cava marmora, somnum

Rumpere; sive bibas, sive lavere, tace.
5.: Asinius autem brevi illo tempore quasi in hortulos in arenarias quasdam juxta portam Exquiliniam perductus, occiditur.—Cic. Pro Cluent.

Transcriber’s Note

Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “eyebrows”, “eye-brows”; “godlike”, “god-like”) have not been changed.

Other changes, which have been made to the text:

	page 72, question mark added after “him”, quote mark added before “His”
	page 267, “Aybss” changed to “Abyss”
	page 307, “Capito” changed to “Capitol”