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5 (return) [ Sulpicius Camerinus, put to death by the same emperor, upon some frivolous charge.]
6 (return) [ A select body of men who formed a court of judicature, called the centurnviral court. Their jurisdiction extended chiefly, if not entirely, to questions of wills and intestate estates. Their number, it would seem, amounted to 100. M.]
7 (return) [ Junius Mauricus, the brother of Rusticus Arulenus. Both brothers were sentenced on the same day, Arulenue to execution and Mauricui to banishment.]
8 (return) [ There seems to have been a cast of uncommon blackness in the character of this Regulus; otherwise the benevolent Pliny would scarcely have singled him out, as he has in this and some following letters, for the subject of his warmest contempt and indignation. Yet, infamous as he was, he had his flatterers and admirers; and a contemporary poet frequently represents him as one of the most finished characters of the age, both in eloquence and virtue. M.]
9 (return) [ The Decurii were a sort of senators in the municipal or corporate cities of Italy. M.]
10 (return) [ "Euphrates was a native of Tyre, or, according to others, of Byzantium. He belonged to the Stoic school of philosophy. In his old age he became tired of life, and asked and obtained from Hadrian permission to put an end to himself by poison." Smith's Dict. of Greek and Roman Biog.]
11 (return) [ A pleader and historian of some distinction, mentioned by Tacitus, Ann. XIV. 19, and by Quintilian, X, I, 102.]
12 (return) [ Padua.]
13 (return) [ Domitian]
14 (return) [ Iliad, XII. 243. Pope.]
15 (return) [ Equal to about $4,000 of our money. After the reign of Augustus the value of the sesterces.]
16 (return) [ "The equestrian dignity, or that order of the Roman people which we commonly call knights, had nothing in it analogous to any order of modern knighthood, but depended entirely upon a valuation of their estates; and every citizen, whose entire fortune amounted to 400,000 sesterces, that is, to about $16,000 of our money, was enrolled, of course, in the list of knights, who were considered as a middle order between the senators and common people, yet, without any other distinction than the privilege of wearing a gold ring, which was the peculiar badge of their order." Life of Cicero, Vol. I. III. in note. M.]
17 (return) [ An elegant Attic orator, remarkable for the grace and lucidity of his style, also for his vivid and accurate delineations of character.]
18 (return) [ A graceful and powerful orator, and friend of Densosthenes.]
19 (return) [ A Roman orator of the Augustan age. He was a poet and historian as well, but gained most distinction as an orator.]
20 (return) [ A man of considerable taste, talent, and eloquence, but profligate and extravagant. He was on terms of some intimacy with Cicero.]
21 (return) [ The praetor was assisted by ten assessors, five of whom were senators, and the rest knights. With these he was obliged to consult before he pronounced sentence. M.]
22 (return) [ A contemporary and rival of Aristophanes.]
23 (return) [ Aristophanes, Ach. 531]
24 (return) [ Thersites. Iliad, II. V. 212.]
25 (return) [ Ulysses. Iliad, III. V. 222.]
26 (return) [ Menelaua. Iliad, III. V. 214.]
27 (return) [ Great-grandfather of the Emperor M. Aurelius.]
28 (return) [ An eminent lawyer of Trajan's reign.]
29 (return) [ The philosophers used to hold their disputations in the gymnasia and porticoes, being places of the most public resort for walking, &c. M.]