nted at Nuremburgh. Her verses in praise of Otto
II. would be tolerable, if they were not Leonines: there are in them
some errors of prosody." Bib. Univers. et Histor. Vol. ii. p. 46.]
[Footnote 005: For a fuller account of Feudal and Civil Jurisprudence,
the writer of these pages begs leave to refer to his work, entitled,
"HORAE JURIDICAE SUBSECIVAE, being a connected series of Notes respecting
the Geography, Chronology, and Literary History of the principal Codes
and original Documents of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Canon Law." 1
vol. 8vo.]
[Footnote 006: It is entitled, "_Martiani Minei Felicis Capellae
Carthaginiensis, Viri Procunsularis, Satyricon, in quo de Nuptiis
Philologiae et Mecurii libri duo, & de septem artibus liberalibus libri
singulares. Omnes, et emendati et Notis sive Februis Hug. Grotii
illustrati. Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Christophorum Raphelingium
Academiae Lugduno-Bat. Typographum_ M. D. C." [Transcriber's note:
Apostrophic date 1600] The Dedication to the Prince of Conde follows:
then, Encomiastic Verses by Scaliger, and Tiliabrogus. The two works are
then inserted, with an address to the reader, Errata, and Various
Readings. Afterwards, _Hugeiani Grotii Februa[007] in Satyricon Martiani
Capellae:_ this contains his notes. They are preceded by an Engraving of
Grotius. Round it, is written, "_Anno_ M. D. C." [Transcriber's note:
Apostrophic date 1600] Hora Ruit.[008] AEt.xv. Under the engraving the
following verses are printed,
"_Quem sibi quindenis_ ASTRAEA _sacravit ab annis,
Talis,_ HUGEIANI GROTII _ora fero_."]
[Footnote 007: "Corrections"--or more literarily, "Purifications".]
[Footnote 008: These words were used by Grotius for his motto.]
[Footnote 009: Fabricii Bibliotheca Latina, Lib iii. c. 15. In 1794,
John Adam Goez published the "Treatise on the Marriage of Philology and
Mercury" separately, in a duodecimo volume: he mentions, in the preface,
an edition of it by Walthard. It is on the authority of Goez that we
have assigned the age of Capella to the third century: others place him
in a much later period.]
[Footnote 010: Montucla. Histoire des Mathematiques, Vol.ii. p.657.]
[Footnote 011: Vol. 9. p. 147. ii. 1.]
[Footnote 012: A similar exclusive claim in respect to the Indian seas,
under the grant of Pope Alexander VI., was set up by the Portuguese;
similar claims to the Ligustic and Adriatic seas, have been and still
continue to be made by th
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