[1] De Senectute, xxiii.

[2] Æneid, i. 428-29.

[3] "Tarda sit illa dies et nostro serior ævo."—Met. xv. 868.

[4] This refers to the second Scipio Africanus, and the words alluded to are these: "It is his goodness that I loved, and that is not dead; it lives not alone for me, who have had it ever before my eyes, but it will go down in all its beauty to those who come after. Whenever a man is meditating some great undertaking, or shall be nourishing in his breast great hopes, his shall be the memory, and his the image that such a man shall take for a pattern."—Cicero, De Amicitiâ, xxvii.

[5] Æneid, i. 328-29.

[6] Cicero, Tusculan Orations, iv. 18.

[7] Quoted from Attilius in Cicero's Letters to Atticus, xiv.

[8] Ovid, Amores, I. x. 13.

[9] Æneid, vi. 540-43.

[10] Æneid, i. 613

[11] Seneca, De Beneficiis, vii. 8.

[12] Terence, Phormio, 949.

[13] Tusculan Orations, iv. 35

[14] Academica.

[15] Quoted from Tusculan Orations, iii. 26.

[16] Simone Martini, of Siena.

[17] A river in Thessaly.

[18] A town in Phocis, near Delphi.

[19] Terence, Eunuch, 59-63.

[20] Terence, Eunuch, 70-73.

[21] Ibid., 56.

[22] Ibid. 57, 58.

[23] Tusculan Orations, iv. 35.

[24] De Remediis Amoris, I. 162.

[25] Æneid, iii. 44.

[26] Tusculan Orations, iv. 35.

[27] Æneid, iv. 69-73.

[28] Seneca, Epist., xxviii.

[29] Horace, Epistles, Book I., Epist., xi. 27 (Conington).

[30] Horace, Epist., Book I., xi. 25-26 (Conington).

[31] Seneca's Epist., lxiv.

[32] Æneid, vi. 126-27.

[33] Georgics, ii. 136-39.

[34] Ildebrandino di Conte, Bishop of Padua, Epist. cxi. 25.

[35] Petrarch's Penitential Psalms, iii. (translated by George Chapman).

[36] Ovid's De Remediis Amoris, 579-80.

[37] Petrarch's Epistles, i. 7.

[38] Quoted in Seneca's treatise, De Animæ tranquillitate, xv.

[39] Seneca's Epistles, ii.

[40] Tusculan Orations, iv. 35.

[41] The text here is obscure.

[42] Suetonius Domitian, xviii.

[43] Virgil, Eclogues, i. 29.

[44] Æneid, vi. 615-16.

[45] Ibid., ii. 265.

[47] Seneca, Epistles, iv.

[48] Petrarch's Africa, vii. 292.

[49] Seneca, De Natura Quæstiones, i. 17.

[50] Macrobius Saturnalia, ii 5.

[51] Horace, Epistles, i 4, 13.

[52] PS. cxxxi. 9.

[53] Cicero, Pro Marcello, viii.

[54] Seneca, Letters.

[55] De Senectute, xx.

[56] Ibid., xix.

[57] Horace, Odes, iv. 7,17.

[58] De Senectute, xix.

[59] Africa, ii. 361, 363.

[60] Satira, x. 145.

[61] Africa, ii. 481, &c.

[62] Africa, ii. 455-6.

[63] Ibid., ii. 464-5.

[64] Terence's Eunuch, 41.

[65] Africa, ii 486.

[66] Horace, Odes, iv. 7, 13-16.

[67] Palinurus.

[68] Æneid, iii. 515.

[69] Georgics, ii. 58.

[70] Petrarch's Epist., I. iv. 91-2.

[71] Tusculan Orations, i. 39.

[72] Tusculan Orations, i. 30.