s passed for the Reformation of Excessive Apparel. These
Apparel Statutes were repealed by the 1st of James I.]

[Footnote 164: This word does not convey the exact notion, but it is
sufficient. The original is Gephyrists ([Greek: gephyristai]). There
was, they say, a bridge (Gephyra) on the road between Athens and
Eleusis, from which, during the sacred processions to Eleusis, the
people (or, as some authorities say, the women) were allowed the
liberty of joking and saying what they pleased; and hence the name of
such free speakers, Bridgers, Bridge-folk. (See Casaubon's note on
Strabo, p. 400.) Hence the word came to signify generally abusive
people. Sulla did not forget these insults when he took Athens (c.
13). Plutarch alludes to this also in his Treatise on Garrulity, c.
7.]

[Footnote 165: Mimus is a name given by the Romans both to an actor
and to a kind of dramatic performance, which probably resembled a
coarse farce, and was often represented in private houses. Its
distinguishing character was a want of decency. The word Mimus is of
Greek origin, and probably derived its name from the amount of
gestures and action used in these performances. The Greeks also had
their Mimi.]

[Footnote 166: This passage is apparently corrupt. But the general
meaning is tolerably clear. (See Sulla, c. 36.)]

[Footnote 167: See Marius, c. 10.]

[Footnote 168: Tribunus Militum, a military tribune. Plutarch
translates the term by Chiliarchus, a commander of a thousand. At this
time there were six tribunes to a Roman legion.]

[Footnote 169: The Tectosages were a Celtic people who lived at the
foot of the Pyrenees west of Narbo (Narbonne).]

[Footnote 170: Mannert (_Geographie der Griechen und Roemer_, Pt. iii.
p. 216) wishes to establish that these Marsi were a German nation, who
lived on both sides of the Lippe and extended to the Rhine, and not
the warlike nation of the Marsi who inhabited the central Apennines
south-east of Rome. This is the remark of Mannert as quoted by
Kaltwasser; but I do not find it in the second edition of Mannert (Pt.
iii. 168), where he is treating of the German Marsi.]

[Footnote 171: The passage is in the _Phoenissae_ of Euripides, v. 531
&c.:

Why seek the most pernicious of all daemons,
Ambition, O my son? Not so; unjust the goddess,
And houses many, many prosperous states
She enters and she quits, but ruins all.

]

[Footnote 172: The exhibition of wild animals in the R