Aeneid, II. 351–2. ↩
2 Corinthians 11:14. ↩
Cicero, Contra Verrem, VI. 8. ↩
Cicero, Contra Catilinam, III. 8. ↩
Alluding to the sanctuary given to all who fled to Rome in its early days. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid, I. 278. ↩
Compare Augustine Epistola ad Deogratias, 102, 13; and De Praedestinatione Sanctorum 19. ↩
Virgil Georgic I. 502, “Laomedonteae luimus perjuria Trojae.” ↩
Iliad, XX. 293 et seq. ↩
Aeneid, V. 810, 811. ↩
Gratis et ingratis. ↩
De Conjuratione Catilinae VI. ↩
Helen’s husband. ↩
Venus’ husband. ↩
Suetonius, in his Life of Julius Caesar (ch. 6), relates that, in pronouncing a funeral oration in praise of his aunt Julia, Caesar claimed for the Julian gens to which his family belonged a descent from Venus, through Iulus, son of Eneas. ↩
Livy, 83, one of the lost books; and Appian, in Mithridat. ↩
The gates of Janus were not the gates of a temple, but the gates of a passage called Janus, which was used only for military purposes; shut therefore in peace, open in war. ↩
The year of the Consuls T. Manlius and C. Atilius, AUC 519. ↩
Sallust De Conjuratione Catilinae II. ↩
Aeneid, VIII. 326–7. ↩
Sallust De Conjuratione Catilinae VI. ↩
Aeneid, XI. 532. ↩
Aeneid X. 464. ↩
Livy, X. 47. ↩
Being son of Apollo. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid I. 286. ↩
Pharsalia V. 1. ↩
Aeneid, X. 821, of Lausus:
“But when Anchises’ son surveyed
The fair, fair face so ghastly made,
He groaned, by tenderness unmanned,
And stretched the sympathizing hand,” etc.
Virgil, Aeneid, VI. 813. ↩
Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae II. ↩
Psalm 10:3. ↩
Aeneid, II. 351–2. ↩
Cicero, De Republica II. 10. ↩
Contra Catilinam III. 1. ↩
Aeneid, VI. 820, etc. ↩
His nephew. ↩
Historiae I. ↩
Lectisternia, from lectus, a couch, and sterno, I spread. ↩
Proletarius, from proles, offspring. ↩
The oracle ran: “Dico te, Pyrrhe, vincere posse Romanos.” ↩
Troy, Lavinia, Alba. ↩
Under the inscription on the temple some person wrote the line, “Vecordiae opus aedem facit Concordiae”—The work of discord makes the temple of Concord. ↩
Cicero, Contra Catilinam III. sub. fin. ↩
Lucan, Pharsalia II. 142–146. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid, I. 417. ↩
In Augustine’s letter to Evodius (169), which was written towards the end of the year 415, he mentions that this fourth book and the following one were begun and finished during that same year. ↩
Compare Bacon’s “Essay on the Vicissitudes of Things.” ↩
Matthew 5:45. ↩
2 Peter 2:19. ↩
Nonius Marcellus borrows this anecdote from Cicero, De Republica III. ↩
It was extinguished by Crassus in its third year. ↩
Cloacina, supposed by Lactantius (De falsa religione I. 20), Cyprian (De Idolorum vanitate), and Augustine (infra., ch. 23) to be the goddess of the “cloaca,” or sewage of Rome. Others, however, suppose it to be equivalent to Cluacina, a title given to Venus, because the Romans after the end of the Sabine war purified themselves (cluere) in the vicinity of her statue. ↩
Forculum foribus, Cardeam cardini, Limentinum limini. ↩
Virgil, Eclogue III. 60. ↩
Virgil, Aeneid, I. 47. ↩
Cicero, De Natura Deorum II. 25. ↩
Virgil, Georgic II. 325, 326. ↩
Eusebius, De Praeparatio Evangelica I. 10. ↩
Virgil, Georgic IV. 221, 222. ↩
The feminine Fortune. ↩
Habakkuk 2:4. ↩
So called from the consent or harmony of the celestial movements of these gods. ↩
Tusculanae Disputationes I. 26. ↩
Livy, II. 36; Cicero, De Divinatione 26. ↩
Called by Cicero (De Oratore, I. 39) the most eloquent of lawyers, and the best skilled lawyer among eloquent men. ↩
Superflua non nocent. ↩
Romans 1:25. ↩
De Divinatione II. 37. ↩
Cicero De Natura Deorum, lib. II. ch. 28. ↩
Superstition,
