; mais je
ne soupconnois pas qu'elle fut grande."--_Dialogue de Sylla et
d'Eucrate_.) _Considerations ... de la Grandeur des Romains, etc._,
Paris, 1795, ii. 219. By Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.

[Stanza lxxxiii. indicates the following events in the life of Sulla. In
B.C. 81 he assumed the name of Felix (or, according to Plutarch,
Epaphroditus, Plut, _Vitae_, 1812, iv. 287), (line 1). Five years before
this, B.C. 86, during the consulship of Marius and Cinna, his party had
been overthrown, and his regulations annulled; but he declined to return
to Italy until he had brought the war against Mithridates to a
successful conclusion, B.C. 83 (lines 3-6). In B.C. 81 he was appointed
dictator (line 7), and B.C. 79 he resigned his dictatorship and retired
into private life (line 9).]

[nq] {394}
----_how supine_
_Into such dust deserted Rome should fade,_
or, _In self-woven sackcloth Rome should thus be laid_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[nr]
_The Earth beneath her shadow and displayed_
_Her wings as with the horizon and was hailed,_
or, _The rushings of his wings and was Almighty hailed_.--[MS. M. erased.]

[ns]
_Sylla supreme of Victors--save our own_
_The ablest of Usurpers--Cromwell--he_
_Who swept off Senates--while he hewed the Throne_
_Down to a block--immortal Villain! See_
_What crimes, etc_.--[MS. M.]

[465] On the 3rd of September Cromwell gained the victory of Dunbar
[1650]; a year afterwards he obtained "his crowning mercy" of Worcester
[1651]; and a few years after [1658], on the same day, which he had ever
esteemed the most fortunate for him, died.

[466] {395} [The statue of Pompey in the Sala dell' Udinanza of the
Palazzo Spada is no doubt a portrait, and belongs to the close of the
Republican period. It cannot, however, with any certainty be identified
with the statue in the Curia, at whose base "great Caesar fell." (See
_Antike Bildwerke in Rom._, F. Matz, F. von Duhn, i. 309.)]

[467] {396} [The bronze "Wolf of the Capitol" in the Palace of the
Conservators is unquestionably ancient, belonging to the end of the
sixth or beginning of the fifth century B.C., and probably of
Graeco-Italian workmanship. The twins, as Winckelmann pointed out (see
Hobhouse's _note_), are modern, and were added under the impression that
this was the actual bronze described by Cicero, _Cat._, iii. 8, and
Virgil, _AEn._, viii. 631. (See _Monuments de l'Art