ter of this deity. The hollowed hand was
reckoned the last degree of degradation; and when the dead body of the
praefect Rufinus was borne about in triumph by the people, the indignity
was increased by putting his hand in that position.

[665] _Storia delle Arti, etc_., Rome, 1783, lib. xii. cap. iii. tom.
ii. p. 422. Visconti calls the statue, however, a Cybele. It is given in
the _Museo Pio-Clement_., tom. i. par. xl. The Abate Fea (_Spiegazione
dei Rami. Storia, etc_., iii. 513) calls it a Crisippo.

[666] {519} _Dict. de Bayle_, art. "Adrastea."

[667] It is enumerated by the regionary Victor.

[668] "Fortunae; hujusce diei." Cicero mentions her, _De Legib._, lib.
ii.

[669]

DEAE. NEMESI
SIVE. FORTV
NAE
PISTORIVS
RVGIANVS
V.C. LEGAT.
LEG. XIII. G.
GORD.

(See _Questiones Romanae, etc._, ap. Graev., _Antiq. Roman._, v. 942. See
also Muratori, _Nov. Thesaur. Inscrip. Vet._, Milan, 1739, i. 88, 89,
where there are three Latin and one Greek inscription to Nemesis, and
others to Fate.)

[670] {520} Julius Caesar, who rose by the fall of the aristocracy,
brought Furius Leptinus and A. Calenus upon the arena.

[671] "Ad captiuos pertinere Tertulliani querelam puto: _Certe quidem &
innocentes gladiatores inludum veniunt, & voluptatis publicae hostiae
fiant_." Justus, Lipsius, 1588, _Saturn. Sermon._, lib. ii. cap. iii. p.
84.

[672] Vopiscus, in _Vit. Aurel._, and in _Vit. Claud._, _ibid._

[673] Just. Lips., _ibid._, lib. i. cap. xii. p. 45.

[674] Augustinus (_Confess._, lib. vi. cap. viii.): "Alypium suum
gladiatorii spectaculi inhiatu incredibiliter abreptum," scribit. ib.,
lib. i. cap. xii.

[675] {521} _Hist. Eccles._, ap. _Ant. Hist. Eccl._, Basle, 1535, lib.
v. cap. xxvi.

[676] Cassiod., _Tripartita_, ap. _Ant. Hist. Eccl._, Basle, 1535, lib.
x. cap. ii. p. 543.

[677] Baronius, _De Ann. et in Notis ad Martyrol. Rom. I. Jan._ (See
Marangoni, _Delle memorie sacre, e profane dell' Anfiteatro Flavio_, p.
25, edit. 1746.)

[678] {524} See _Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto_, p. 43.

[679] See _Classical Tour, etc._, chap. vii. p. 250, vol. ii.

[680] {525} "Under our windows and bordering on the beach is the royal
garden, laid out in parterres, and walks shaded by rows of orange
trees."--_Classical Tour, etc._, chap. xi. vol. ii., 365.

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