[Footnote 249: Plut. _Cato the Elder_, ch. xx.]
[Footnote 250: Plut. _Aem. Paul._ ch. vi.]
[Footnote 251: Plut. _Cato minor 1 ad fin._ What is told in the earlier part of this chapter may perhaps be invention, based on the character of the grown man; but this information at the end may be derived from a contemporary source.]
[Footnote 253: There is a single story of Cicero's boyhood in Plutarch's _Life_ of him, ch. ii., that parents used to visit his school because of his fame as a scholar, etc., but to this I do not attach much importance.]
[Footnote 254: So in _ad Q.F._ iii. 1. 7: de Cicerone tuo quod me semper rogas, etc.]
[Footnote 258: See the few fragments in the Appendix to Riese's edition of the remains of Varro's Menippean Satires, p. 248 foll.]
[Footnote 261: There is probably an allusion to the Stoic view, that reason is not attained till the fourteenth year, in Virgil's line in _Ecl._ 4. 27.]
[Footnote 262: in Nonius, p. 108, s.v. ephippium. Cp. the account of the education of Cato's young son, Plut. _Cato_, 20. Cp. also Virg. _Aen._ ix. 602 foll.]
[Footnote 263: in Nonius, p. 156, s.v. puerae.]
[Footnote 267: Cic. _pro Cluentio_ 60. 165; Marq. _Privatleben_, p. 87.]
[Footnote 268: See a paper by the author in _Classical Rev._ vol. x. p. 317, in which evidence is collected in support of this view. That the praetexta had a quasi-sacred character seems certain; see e.g. Hor. _Epod._ 5. 7; Persius, v. 30; pseudo-Quintilian, _Declam._ 340. See Henzen, _Acta Fratrum Arvalium_ 15, for the pueri patrimi et matrimi, representing in that ancient cult the children of the old Roman family.]
[Footnote 269: Cic. _de Legibus_, ii. 59.]
[Footnote 270: Polyb. vi. 53. For an account of the practice of laudatio see Marq. _Privatleben_, p. 346 foll. This, too, degenerated into falsification.]
[Footnote 271: A full list of games will be found in Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 814 foll.]
[Footnote 272: The question is discussed by Quintilian, i. 2.]
[Footnote 274: Full details about elementary schools in Wilkins, ch. iv., and Marq p. 90 foll.]
[Footnote 276: Plutarch is careful to tell us that Aem. Paullus exercised this supervision himself (ch. vi.).]
[Footnote 277: _Pro Flacco_ 4, 9. Cp. _ad Quint. Fratr._ i. 2. 4.]