r is! Even in the shrewdest and most worldly wise of men,
passion will often outweigh interest; and plans, which have been framed
for years with craft and patience, are often wrecked by the impetuous
rashness of a moment.

END OF VOL. I.

FOOTNOTES

_ 1 Vicus sceleratus._ So called because Tullia therein drove her
chariot over her father's corpse.

2 {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}.--PINDAR

3 That it was such, can scarce be doubted, from the line of Martial:
"Myrrheaque in Parthis pocula cocta focis."

4 It must not be imagined that this is fanciful. Rooms were fitted up
in this manner, and termed _camera vitrae_, and the panels _vitrae
quadraturae_. But a few years later than the period of the text, B.
C. 58, M. AEmilius Scaurus built a theatre capable of containing
80,000 persons, the scena of which, composed of three stories, had
one, the central, made entirely of colored glass in this fashion.

5 About L90 sterling. See Pliny Hist. Nat. 13, 16, for a notice of
this very table, which was preserved to his time.

6 By the _Lex annalis_, B. C. 180, passed at the instance of the
tribune L. V. Tappulus.

7 The _Quinquertium_, the same as the Greek Pentathlon, was a conflict
in five successive exercises--leaping, the discus, the foot race,
throwing the spear, and wrestling.

8 The _Aqua Crabra_ was a small stream flowing into the Tiber from the
south-eastward, now called _Maranna_. It entered the walls near the
Capuan gate, and passing through the _vallis Murcia_ between the
Aventine and Palatine hills, where it supplied the Circus Maximus
with water for the _naumachia_, fell into the river above the
Palatine bridge.

9 The _Muraena Helena_, whi