Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846

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3

Finlay's Greece under the Romans, p. 250.

4

"Mihi multum legenti multum audienti quæ populus Romanus domi militiæque præclara facinora fecissent, forte lubuit attendere quæ res maxime tanta negotia sustinuit. At mihi multa agitanti constabat, paucorum civium egregiam virtutem cuncta patravisse: eoque factum ut divitias paupertas, multitudinem paucitas, superaret." – Sallust, Bell. Cat., 32.

5

They were as high as L.9 sterling in the time of Constantine, a sum probably equal to L.20 of our money. But the freemen were the higher classes alone, and it is probable a similar class, both in France and England, pay at least as much at this time. – See Gibbon, iii. 88.

6

Gibbon, c. i. and c. xxxii. Agathias states the military establishment in its best days at 675,000, which is much more likely its real amount. Agathias, v. p. 157, Paris edition.

7

Gibbon, vol. vi. c. xxxvi. p. 235.

8

Ibid. vol. iii. c. xviii. p. 87. Edition in twelve volumes.

9

"Arantur Gallicana rura barbaris bobus, et juga Germanica captiva præbent colla nostris cultoribus." —Probi Epist. ad Senatum, in Vopesio.

10

Michelet, Histoire de France, vol. i. p. 104-108.

11

Finlay's Greece under the Romans.

12

Tacitus, Annal., xii. 43.

13

De Bello Gild., v. 64, 65.

14

Gibbon, c. xxix.

15

"Advenio supplex, non ut proculcet Araxen
Consul ovans, nostræve premant pharetrata secures
Susa, nec ut Rubris aquilas figamus arenis.
Hæc nobis, hæc ante dabas. – Nunc pabula tantum
Roma precor. Miserere tuæ, Pater Optime, gentis —
Extremam defende famem.

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Tot mihi pro meritis Lybiam Nilumque dedêre
Ut dominam plebem bellatoremque senatum
Classibus astivis alerent.

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Nunc inhonorus, egens, perfert miserabile pacis
Supplicium, nulloque palam circumdatus hoste
Obessi discrimen habet. Per singula letum
Impendet momenta mihi, dubitandaque pauci
Præscribunt alimenta dies." – Claud. De Bello Gild.

16

Finlay's Greece under the Romans, 435, 436.

17

Ibid. 517.

18

Gibbon, c. xxxi. p. 351.

19

Ibid. c. xxxiii. vol. vi. p. 20.

20

Greece under the Romans, 456, 467.

21

Josephus, ii. 16.

22

Finlay, 515.