1043 (return) [ "Graeculi. Even under the empire, with its relaxed morality and luxurious tone, the Romans continued to apply this contemptuous designation to people to whom they owed what taste for art and culture they possessed." Church and Brodribb.]
1044 (return) [ A Roman cubit is equal to a foot 5.406 inches of our measure. Arbuthanot's Tab. M.]
1047 (return) [ A diploma is properly a grant of certain privileges either to particular places or persons. It signifies also grants of other kinds; and it sometimes means post-warrants, as, perhaps, it does in this place. M.]
1049 (return) [ Cybele, Rhea, or Ops, as she is otherwise called; from whom, according to the pagan creed, the rest of the gods are supposed to have descended. M.]
1040b (return) [ Whatever was legally consecrated was ever afterwards unapplicable to profane uses. M.]
1041b (return) [ That is, a city not admitted to enjoy the laws and privileges of Rome. M.]
1042b (return) [ The reason why they did not choose to borrow of the public at the same rate of interest which they paid to private persons was (as one of the Commentators observes) because in the former instance they were obliged to give security, whereas in the latter they could raise money upon their personal credit. M.]
1043b (return) [ These, in the original institution as settled by Augustus, were only commanders of his body-guards; but in the later times of the Roman empire they were next in authority under the emperor, to whom they seem to have acted as a sort of prime ministers. M.]
1044b (return) [ The provinces were divided into, a kind of circuits called conventus, whither the proconsuls used to go in order to administer justice. The judges here mentioned must not be understood to mean the same sort of judicial officers as with us: they rather answered to our juries. M.]
1045b (return) [ By the imperial constitutions the philosophers were exempted from all public functions. Catariscus. M.]
1047b (return) [ Geographers are not agreed where to place this city; Cellarius conjectures it may possibly be the same with Prusa ad Olympum, Prusa at the foot of Mount Olympus in Mysia.]
1049b (return) [ That is, whether they should be considered in a state of freedom or slavery. M.]