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"Those funerals with their horns and trumpets meeting in the Forum" was Horace's idea of the height of noise.

Velia was a town in Liguria destroyed by a mountain slide. It was near the present town of Piacenza, about an hour's railway ride from Milan. In 1747 the inscription was found, one of the longest that has come down to us, containing six hundred and thirty lines in seven columns.

The usual rate in provinces was twelve per cent. Pliny, Epist., x., 62 . Later, Alex. Severus lent money to the poor to enable them to buy land at three per cent.

Julianus, 611; Walker, p. 77.

Duruy, vol. v., p. 175.

Cambridge University Press, p. 122.

Hunter, p. 68.

Gibbon, vol. i., p. 497.

Zosimus, book ii., says parents were obliged to sell their children to pay the tax collectors.

Barnabas, Epistle, chapter xix.

Vision of Paul, par. 40.

Terme et Monfalcon, p. 79.

Terme et Monfalcon, p. 80.

Matthew xxviii., 19, 20.

Ammian. Marcell., xvii., 8.

A sou was worth about 1000 grains of silver and the denier had a weight of about 25 grains of silver. Davoud-Oghlou, vol. i., p. 465.

Dugour, p. 93; Davoud-Oghlou, vol. i., p. 613; Lallemand, p. 91.

Terme et Monfalcon, p. 84.

See Laws of Cnut, lxxvii.

Thorpe, p. 414.

Gaillard, p. 83.

Gaillard, vol. i., p. 85.

Ramcle, p. 34.

Ramcle, p. 360.

Ramcle, p. 40.

Cited by de Breuil.

Ramcle, p. 63.

Gaillard, p. 90.

Gaillard, p. 90.

At that time Louis was at war with Germany in the Pays-Bas and in Cologne, and the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars had just been discovered.

Terme et Monfalcon, p. 100.

Gaillard, p. 92.

Curzon, p. 11.

Rep., 7 and 8 Vict. c. 101, s. 13.

Copy of triplicate report, as above indicated.

INDEX

The names of authors from whose works quotations have been made are printed in heavy-faced type.

Aaron, 162

Ab-ba-gi-na, 98

Abbott, Edith, 332

Abipones, 42

Abortion, 26, 259, 260, 279

Abraham, 158

Abu Tamman, 177

Abyssinians, 17

Accouchements, god of, 98

Achilles, 186

Acts of Parliament, 1802, 1833, 324, 329

Adoption, 102, 288, 289; among the Greeks, 204; enjoined by Mohammed, 180; of orphans, China, 49

AEgean culture, 91

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