oris coactus imperio." The letter was
addressed to Maghinard of Cavalcanti, marshal of the kingdom of Sicily.
See Tiraboschi, _Storia, etc._, edit. Venice, 1795, tom. v. par. ii.
lib. iii. p. 525, note.

[614] {502} _Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane_, Diss. lviii. p.
253, tom. iii. edit. Milan, 1751.

[615] _Eclaircissement, etc., etc._, p. 648, edit. Amsterdam, 1740, in
the Supplement to Bayle's _Dictionary_.

[616] {503} _Opera_, i. 540, edit. Basil, 1581.

[617] Cosmus Medices, Decreto Publico, Pater Patriae.

[618] Corinne, 1819, liv. xviii. chap. iii. vol. iii. p. 218.

[619] {504} _Discourses concerning Government_, by A. Sidney, chap. ii.
sect. xxvi. p. 208, edit. 1751. Sidney is, together with Locke and
Hoadley, one of Mr. Hume's "despicable" writers.

[620] {505} Tit. Liv., lib. xxii. cap. v.

[621] _Ibid._, cap. iv.

[622] _Ibid._

[623] {506} _Hist._, lib. iii. cap. 83. The account in Polybius is not
so easily reconcilable with present appearances as that in Livy; he
talks of hills to the right and left of the pass and valley; but when
Flaminius entered he had the lake at the right of both.

[624] {507} About the middle of the twelfth century the coins of Mantua
bore on one side the image and figure of Virgil. _Zecca d'Italia_, iii.
pl. xvii. i. 6. _Voyage dans le Milanais, etc._, par A. L. Millin, ii.
294. Paris, 1817.

[625] {509} _Storia delle Arti, etc._, lib. xi. cap. i. pp. 321, 322,
tom. ii.

[626] Cicer., _Epist. ad Atticum_, xi. 6.

[627] Published by Causeus, in his _Museum Romanum_.

[628] _Storia delle Arti, etc._, lib. xi. cap. i.

[629] Sueton., in _Vit. August._, cap. xxxi., and in _Vit. C. J. Caesar_,
cap. lxxxviii. Appian says it was burnt down. See a note of Pitiscus to
Suetonius, p. 224.

[630] "Tu modo Pompeia lentus spatiare sub umbra" (Ovid, _Art. Am._, i.
67).

[631] Flavii Blondi _De Roma Instaurata_, Venice, 1511, lib. iii. p. 25.

[632] {510} _Antiq. Rom._, lib. i., [Greek: Cha/lkea poie/mata palai~as
e)rgasi/as].

[633] Liv., _Hist._, lib. x. cap. xxiii.

[634] "Tum statua Nattae, tum simulacra Deorum, Romulusque et Remus cum
altrice belua vi fulminis icti conciderunt."--Cic., _De Divinat._, ii.
20. "Tactus est etiam ille qui hanc urbem condidit Romulus: quem
inauratum in Capitolio parvum atque lactentem uberibus lupinis inhiantem
fuisse meministis."--_In Catilin._, iii. 8.

"Hic silvestris erat Romani nominis altrix
Martia, quae parvos