^{page 425 note *} Jamque et flere pio Vesuvina incendia cantu Mens erat.—Statius, Silvæ, lib. v. carm. iii. 205, 6.

^{page 425 note †} The illiterate often wrote Bia Noba for Via Nova. We usually speak of Sebastopol; our regiments have, I believe, Sevastopol.

^{page 425 note ‡} In a note to Melmoth's translation of Pliny's Letters.

^{page 426 note *} For the references to De Maistre and Neander, I am indebted to the above-mentioned work of Archbishop Trench.

^{page 428 note *} Dean Merivale calls attention to the other allusions made by Statius to a subject “peculiarly interesting to him as a native of Neapolis.” They also occur in the Sylvæ (lib. v. carm. iii. 305; lib. iv. carm. viii. 4). In the last named passage the poet congratulates Julius Menecrates on the birth of a third child:—

“clari genus ecce Menecratis auget Tertia jam soboles: procerum tibi nobile vulgus Crescit, et insani solatur damna Vesevi.”

^{page 430 note *} It is true that Plutarch introduces an objector, but the tendency of the treatise appears to me to be unmistakably in the direction of belief in the Sibylline predictions.

^{page 430 note †} “For a beautiful thought in the last chapter but one of The Old Curiosity Shop, I am indebted to Mr Rogers. It is taken from his charming tale Ginevra.

“And long might'st thou have seen An old man wandering as in quest of something— Something he could not find–he knew not what.”

Charles Dickens, Preface to Barnaby Rudge, in Master Humphrey's Clock, vol. iii, (ed. 1841).

^{page 434 note *} It seems right to give the original. “Quamvis enim pulcherrimarum clade terrarum, ut populi, ut urbes memorabili casû, quasi semper victurus occiderit; quamvis ipse plurima opera et mansura condiderit, multum tamen perpetuitati ejus scriptorum tuorum æternitas addet.” Mr Lewis's version is substantially identical with that given above; that of Melmoth is too much of a paraphrase to be cited in evidence. Professor Sellar has observed, I should think with perfect justice, that the Latinity of this silver age had certainly lost much of the precision which characterised the writers of the Augustan epoch.

^{page 437 note *} Lewis would extend this term beyond Polybius. I should be inclined to go as far as thirty-five years.

^{page 439 note *} Lectures on Modern History, lect. viii.

^{page 442 note *} Πόσαι δὶ πόλεις ὅλαι, ἵν, οὕτως εἴπω, τεθνήκασιν, Ελικκη κκαι Πομπήϊοι καὶ Ηρκλάνον, κααὶ ἄλλαι ἀναρίθμητόι—Marci Antonini Commentariorum, lib. iv. cap. 48.