[Footnote 66: The otium of Naples is praised by the Roman
poets, by Virgil, Horace, Silius Italicus, and Statius,
(Cluver. Ital. Ant. l. iv. p. 1149, 1150.) In an elegant
epistles, (Sylv. l. iii. 5, p. 94 - 98, edit. Markland,)
Statius undertakes the difficult task of drawing his wife
from the pleasures of Rome to that calm retreat.]