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See Epist. 1, 2, etc., 11, 44; the last-mentioned addressed to his brother begins, "What wonder, that, while the rest of mankind think me godlike, and some even a god, my own country alone hitherto ignores me, for whose sake especially I wished to distinguish myself, when not even to you, my brother, as I perceive, has it become clear how much I excel this race of men in my doctrine and my life?"

Lister and others; occasioned principally by the title of a book, published by the Dr. being the works of Apicius Coelius, concerning the soups and sauces of the ancients, with an extract of the greatest curiosities contained in that book. Amongst his Letters, is one upon the Denti Scalps, or Tooth-picks of the Antients: Another contains an imitation of Horace: Epist. 5.

Epist. She had a temple without the walls, which gave the name to the Porta Lavernalis. The goddess of eloquence, or persuasion, who had always a great hand in the success of courtship. She was also called Cinxia Juno. She was an old Sabine deity. Some make her the same with Ceres; but Varro imagines her to be the goddess of victory.

'And sure the man who has it in his power To practise virtue, and protracts the hour, Waits like the rustic till the river dried; Still glides the river, and will ever glide. FRANCIS. Horace, Epist. i. 2. 41. See ante, p. 59. See ante, iii. 251. See ante, iii. 136. This assertion is disproved by a comparison of dates.

The king was so equitable as to order the cause to be tried by the great council! Epist. 95. apud Bibl. The forest-laws, particularly, were a great source of oppression.

Pope in his Imitations of Horace, 2 Epist. i. 123 introduces 'well-mouth'd Booth. See ante, iii. 35, and under Sept. 30, 1783. 'Garrick used to tell, that Johnson said of an actor who played Sir Harry Wildair at Lichfield, "There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow;" when, in fact, according to Garrick's account, "he was the most vulgar ruffian that ever went upon boards." Ante, ii. 465.

Thom. p. 94, 95, 97, 99, 197. Hist. Quad. p. 93. M. Paris, p. 74. Beaulieu, Vie de St. Thom. p. 213. Epist. St. Thom. p 149, 229.

IX. Bartol. Facii Epist. p. 79, Flor. He worked on, then, as best he could, with courage and confidence; every now and then doing things that never would have been done by Tacitus: the story, for example, of Sabina Poppaea in the 14th book; Tacitus would have surely passed it over as, though having some relation to the public, coming within the province of biography.

Many discoveries are reserved for future ages, when our memory will have faded from men's minds. We imagine ourselves initiated in the secrets of nature; we are standing on the threshold of her temple." See also Epist. 64. Seneca implies continuity in scientific research. But these predictions are far from showing that Seneca had the least inkling of a doctrine of the Progress of humanity.

We were greatly interested in the Archæological Museum, especially in the library, which contains 120,000 volumes, and some 10,000 valuable manuscripts, among which are many rare and beautifully illuminated literary treasures: Cicero's "Epist. ad Familiaries," the first book printed in Venice, 1465; a Florence "Homer," on vellum, 1483; Marco Polo's Will, 1323; a Herbary, painted by A. Amadi, 1415; Cardinal Guinani's Breviary, with Hemling's beautiful miniatures; and the manuscript of the "Divina Commedia," are only a sample of the treasures here contained, over which we could have lingered with great enjoyment for a far longer time than we could well spare.