hortly before our arrival, having
been entrusted to receive from Lloyd's Company a packet containing a
large sum of money, converted the contents into two cannon-balls, and
forwarded them to the Vladika.

[8] The late Vladika received the honours of sanctity after his death.

[9] Meaning dressed in the European or Frank costume.

[10] The Vladika bears the Russian eagle rising from a crown.

[11] He passed but one night in Montenegro, at Cettigna, and returned
the following day to Cattaro.

[12] On the kalends of January the consuls-elect were formally
installed; and on this occasion a procession was made to the Capitol,
and sacrifice performed to Jupiter. The principal part of the
procession, of course, was the consuls in their curule chair, preceded
by the lictors bearing the _fasces_, or bundles of rods and axes.

[13] From _Janua_, a gate.

[14] The etymology of these old epithets, from _pateo_ (to open) and
_claudo_ (to shut,) is obvious enough.

[15] The _lar familiaris_, or domestic god of the family, who had an
altar in the inner part of the Roman house.

[16] The allusion here, and in the following lines, is to the
different _strenae_ or New-Year's gifts, which used to be given by the
Romans.

[17] The old Roman _as_, with the double head on one side and a ship
on the reverse, is well known among numismatists.

[18] The Tuscan flood is a common appellation for the Tiber, as rising
in Etruria, and forming the ancient boundary between that country and
Latium, opposite Rome.

[19] A silly etymology--from _lateo_, to lurk; mentioned also by
Virgil.--_AEn_. viii. 323.

[20] "The Romans gave the name of _Jani_ to arches like that of
Temple-Bar in London, under which people passed from one street into
another. They were always double; people entering by one and going out
by the other, every one keeping to the right. The temple or gateway
mentioned in this place, adjacent to the ox and the fish markets, was
built by Duilius."--KEIGHTLY.

[21] Although the allusion refers, in the verses, to Delphi, it was, I
think, at Dodona, in the earliest period of oracular influence, that
this belief prevailed.

[22] "And Mullah mine, whose waves whilome I taught to
weep."--SPENSER.

[23] _The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge_. By JAMES GILLMAN. Vol. I,
London; 1838.

[24] "Jacob Boehmen." We ourselves had the honour of presenting to Mr
Coleridge Law's English version of Jacob--a set of huge quartos. Some
mont