[7] It was this man's father who, shortly before our arrival, having been entrusted to receive from Lloyd's Company a packet containing a large sum of money, converted the contents into two cannon-balls, and forwarded them to the Vladika.
[8] The late Vladika received the honours of sanctity after his death.
[9] Meaning dressed in the European or Frank costume.
[10] The Vladika bears the Russian eagle rising from a crown.
[11] He passed but one night in Montenegro, at Cettigna, and returned the following day to Cattaro.
[12] On the kalends of January the consuls-elect were formally installed; and on this occasion a procession was made to the Capitol, and sacrifice performed to Jupiter. The principal part of the procession, of course, was the consuls in their curule chair, preceded by the lictors bearing the _fasces_, or bundles of rods and axes.
[14] The etymology of these old epithets, from _pateo_ (to open) and _claudo_ (to shut,) is obvious enough.
[15] The _lar familiaris_, or domestic god of the family, who had an altar in the inner part of the Roman house.
[16] The allusion here, and in the following lines, is to the different _strenæ_ or New-Year's gifts, which used to be given by the Romans.
[17] The old Roman _as_, with the double head on one side and a ship on the reverse, is well known among numismatists.
[18] The Tuscan flood is a common appellation for the Tiber, as rising in Etruria, and forming the ancient boundary between that country and Latium, opposite Rome.
[19] A silly etymology--from _lateo_, to lurk; mentioned also by Virgil.--_Æn_. viii. 323.
[20] "The Romans gave the name of _Jani_ to arches like that of Temple-Bar in London, under which people passed from one street into another. They were always double; people entering by one and going out by the other, every one keeping to the right. The temple or gateway mentioned in this place, adjacent to the ox and the fish markets, was built by Duilius."--KEIGHTLY.
[21] Although the allusion refers, in the verses, to Delphi, it was, I think, at Dodona, in the earliest period of oracular influence, that this belief prevailed.
[22] "And Mullah mine, whose waves whilome I taught to weep."--SPENSER.
[23] _The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge_. By JAMES GILLMAN. Vol. I, London; 1838.