³⁰ 2 Cor. xi. 14.

³¹ Cicero, C. Verrem, vi. 8.

³² Cicero, C. Catilinam, iii. 8.

³³ Alluding to the sanctuary given to all who fled to Rome in its early days.

³⁴ Virgil, Aeneid, i. 278.

¹ Compare Aug. Epist. ad Degogratias, 102, 13; and De Prae. Sanci., 19.

² Ch. 4.

³ Virg, George. i. 502, Laomedontrae luminus perjuria Trajae.

⁴ Iliad, xx. 293 et seqq.

⁵ Aeneid. v. 810, 811.

⁶ Gratis et ingratis.

⁷ De Cat. vi.

⁸ Helens's husband.

⁹ Venus' husband.

¹⁰ Suetonius, in his Life of Julius Caesar (c. 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 Julus, son of Eneas.

¹¹ Livy, 83, one of the lost books; and Appian, in Mithridat.

¹² 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.

¹³ The year of the Consuls T. Manlius and C. Atilius, A.u.C. 519.

¹⁴ Sall. Conj. Cat. ii.

¹⁵ Aeneid, viii. 326-7.

¹⁶ Sall. Cat. Conj. vi.

¹⁷ Aeneid, xi. 532.

¹⁸ Ibid. x. 464.

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