NOTES TO THE

IO

51 See another Difiertation of M. de Burigny in the xxxviith volume,cn the Roman freedmen.

51 Spanheim, Orbis Roman. I. i. c. 16, p. 124, etc.

5J Seneca de dementia, 1 . i. c. 24. The original is much fhongcv,

„ Quantum periculum immineret fi fervi noftri numerare nos ccepifTent.,,

54 See Pliny (Hill, iiatur. I xxxiii.) and Athenseus (Deipnofophift. I. vi. t

p. 272.) The latter boldly afierts, that he knew very many (crctyu-srcXXo* )

Romans who poffefled, not for ufe, but oftentation, ten and eventwenty thoufand slaves.

?s In Paris there are not more than 43,700 donieftics of every fort,and not a twelfth part of the inhabitants. MefTange Recherches fur laPopulation, p. 186 .

A learned slave fold for many hundred pounds fterling; Atticusalways bred and taught them himfelf. Cornel. Nepos in Vit c. 13.

57 Many of the Roman phyficians were slaves. See Dr. Middleton’sDifiertation and Defence.

58 Their ranks and offices are very copiously enumerated by Pig-norius de Servis.

59 Tacit. Annal. xiv. 43. They were all executed for not preventingtheir matter's murder.

60 Apuleius iH Apolog. p. S4S. Edit. Delphin*

61 Plin. Hitt. Natur. 1 . xxxiii. 47.

€z Compute twenty millions in France, twenty-two in Germany, fourin Hungary, ten in Italy with its islands, eight in Great Britain andIreland, eight in Spain and Portugal, ten or twelve in the EuropeanRuffia, fix in Poland, fix in Greece and Turkey, four in Sweden, threein Denmark and Norway, four in the Low Countries. The whole wouldamount to one hundred and five, or one hundred and feven millions.

See Voltaire, Hittoire Generale.

63 Jofeph d? Bell. Judaico. I. ii. c. 16. The oration of Agrippa, orrather of the hiftorian, is a fine picture of the Roman empire.

64 Sueton. in Auguft. c. 28. Auguftus built in Rome the temple andforum of Mars the Avenger; the temple of Jupiter Tonans in tile Ca-pitol; that of Apollo Palatine, with public libraries; the portico andbafilica of Caius and Lucius, the porticoes of Livia and Octavia, andthe theatre of Marcellus. The example of the fovereign was imitatedby his minifters and generals; and his friend Agrippa left behind himthe immortal monument of the Pantheon.

63 See Maffei, Verona illuftrata, I. iv. p. 68-

66 See the xth book of Pliny’s Epiftles. He mentions the followingworks, carried on at the expence qf the cities. At Nicomedia, a newforum, an aqueduct, and a canal, left unfinished by a king; at Nice,a Gymuafium, andarheatie v/hich lia.d already coft near ninety ihoufandpounds; baths at Prufa and Claudiopolis; and an aqueduct of fixteenmiles in length for the ufe of Sinope.

67 Hadrian aftenvaids made a very equitable regulation, which divided