[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] Ca.s.siod., _Tripart.i.ta_, 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 Ill.u.s.trations of the Fourth Canto_, p. 43.

[679] See _Cla.s.sical 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."--_Cla.s.sical Tour, etc._, chap. xi. vol. ii., 365.

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