[Footnote 70: The statue in the villa Borghese at Rome, in a
sitting posture, with an open hand, which is vulgarly given
to Belisarius, may be ascribed with more dignity to Augustus
in the act of propitiating Nemesis, (Winckelman, Hist. de
l'Art, tom. iii. p. 266.) Ex nocturno visu etiam stipem,
quotannis, die certo, emendicabat a populo, cavana manum
asses porrigentibus praebens, (Sueton. in August. c. 91,
with an excellent note of Casaubon.) Note: Lord Mahon
abandons the statue, as altogether irreconcilable with the
state of the arts at this period, (p. 472.) - M.]