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[43] Note 1, p. 466.

[44] xix. 11.

[45] The personal taste of the emperors now greatly helped to form style.

This should not be forgotten in criticising the works of this period.

[46] Such is Teuffel's opinion, following Buchelor, L. L. -- 358.

[47] P. 1414.

[48] This date is adopted by Charpentier. Teuffel (L. L. -- 362, 2) inclines to a later date, 125 A.D.

[49] Apol. 23.

[50] Sometimes called _De Magia_.

[51] The word _paupertas_ must be used in a limited sense, as it is by Horace, _pauperemque dives me pet.i.t_; or else we must suppose that Apuleius had squandered his fortune in his travels.

[52] The case was tried before the Proconsul Claudius Maximus.

[53] It will be found Metam. iv. 28--vi. 24.

[54] Apuleius himself (i. 1) calls it a _Milesian tale_ (see App. to ch.

3). These are very generally condemned by the cla.s.sical writers. But there is no doubt they were very largely read _sub rosa_. When Cra.s.sus was defeated in Parthia, the king Surenas is reported to have been greatly struck with the licentious novels which the Roman officers read during the campaign.

[55] St Augustine fully believed that he and Apollonius of Tyana were workers of (demoniacal) miracles.

CHAPTER IX.

[1] The reader is referred to Champagny, _Les Cesars_, vols. iii. and iv; Martha, _Les Moralistes romaines_; Gaston Boissier, _Les Antonins_; Charpentier, _Ecrivains latins sous l'Empire_.

[2] The declaimers of _Suaseriae_ in praise of the heroes of old were contemptuously styled _Marathonouachos_.

[3] Delivered by Fronto.

[4] One, irritated that the Emperor Antoninus did not bow to him in the theatre, called out, ”Caesar! do you not see me?”

[5] Inst. Div. iii. 23.

[6] Dio. xvii. p. 464.

[7] Id. xii. p. 397.