[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.