resda, Panno 1759.

[589] "Appassionato ammiratore ed invitto apologista dell' _Omero
Ferrarese_." The title was first given by Tasso, and is quoted to the
confusion of the _Tassisti_, lib. iii. pp. 262, 265. _La Vita di M. L.
Ariosto, etc_.

[590]

"Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non
Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus."

[591] {488} Plin., _Hist. Nat_., lib. ii. cap. 55.

[592] _Columella_, De Re Rustica, x. 532, lib. x.; Sueton., in _Vit.
August_., cap. xc., et in _Vit. Tiberii_, cap. lxix.

[593] Note 2, p. 409, edit. Lugd. Bat. 1667.

[594] _Vid_. J. C. Boulenger, _De Terrae Motu et Fulminib_., lib. v. cap.
xi., _apud_ J. G. Graev., _Thes. Antiq. Rom_., 1696, v. 532.

[595] [Greek: Ou)dei\s keraunothei\s a)/timo/s e)sti o(/then kai\ o(s
theo\s tima~tai]. Artemidori _Oneirocritica_, Paris, 1603, ii. 8, p. 91.

[596] {489} Pauli Warnefridi Diaconi _De Gestis Langobard_., lib. iii.
cap. xxxi., _apud_ La Bigne, _Max. Bibl. Patr_., 1677, xiii. 177.

[597] I. P. Valeriani _De fulminum significationibus declamatio_, _apud_
J. G. Graev., _Thes. Antiq. Rom_., 1696, v. 604. The declamation is
addressed to Julian of Medicis.

[598] {490} See _Menum. Ant. Ined_., 1767, ii. par. i. cap. xvii. sect.
iii p. 50; and _Storia delle Arti, etc_., lib. xi. cap. i. tom ii. p.
314, note B.

[599] _Nomina gentesque Antiquae Italiae_ (Gibbon, _Miscell. Works_,
1814). p. 204, edit. oct.

[600] {492} The free expression of their honest sentiments survived
their liberties. Titius, the friend of Antony, presented them with games
in the theatre of Pompey. They did not suffer the brilliancy of the
spectacle to efface from their memory that the man who furnished them
with the entertainment had murdered the son of Pompey: they drove him
from the theatre with curses. The moral sense of a populace,
spontaneously expressed, is never wrong. Even the soldiers of the
triumvirs joined in the execration of the citizens, by shouting round
the chariots of Lepidus and Plancus, who had proscribed their brothers,
_De Germanis, non de Gallis, duo triumphant consules_; a saying worth a
record, were it nothing but a good pun. [C. Vell. Paterculi, _Hist_.,
lib. ii. cap. lxxix. p. 78, edit. Elzevir, 1639. _Ibid_., lib. ii. cap.
lxvii.]

[601] {494} _Il Principe di Niccolo Machiavelli_, Paris, 1825, pp. 184,
185.

[602] _Storia della Lett. Ital._, edit. Venice, 1795, tom. v. lib. iii.
par. 2, p. 448, note. Tiraboschi is i