[Footnote 277: _Pro Flacco_ 4, 9. Cp. _ad Quint. Fratr._ i. 2. 4.] [Footnote 278: That the boy was not always respectful is shown in an amusing passage in Plautus. _Bacchides_, III. iii. 34 foll.] [Footnote 279: Sen. _Controversiae_, vii. 3. 8.] [Footnote 280: London, O.J. Clay and Sons, 1895.] [Footnote 281: Fortuna occurs many times, as in the so-called sententiae Varronis printed at the end of Riese's edition of the fragments of Varro's Menippean satires. This is characteristic of the period.] [Footnote 282: Hor. _Epist._ i. I. 70.] [Footnote 283: Marq. _Privatleben_, p. 95 foll.; Wilkins, p. 53.] [Footnote 284: There is a good example of this in the well-known case of Brutus' loan to the Salaminians of Cyprus: see especially Cic. ad Alt. v. 21. 12.] [Footnote 285: Hor. Ars Poet. 323 foll.] [Footnote 286: Mommsen, _Hist. of Rome_, iv. p. 563.] [Footnote 287: Quintilian was of opinion that Greek authors should precede Latin: i. I. 12.] [Footnote 288: _De Oratore_, i. 187.] [Footnote 289: There are many subjects in the book of other kinds, but all are illustrated in exactly the same way.] [Footnote 290: H. Jordan, _M. Catonis praeter librum de re rustica quae extant_, p. 80.] [Footnote 291: Full information on this point will be found in Marquardt, _Privatleben_, p. 131 foll.] [Footnote 292: See my _Roman Festivals_, p. 56. The Liberalia (March 17) was the usual day for the change, and a convenient one for the enrolment of tirones.] [Footnote 293: See the very interesting note (11) in Marq. p. 123, as to the enrolment in municipal towns.] [Footnote 294: Pro Caelio, 4. 9.] [Footnote 295: Livy xlv. 37. 3.] [Footnote 296: Pro Caelio, 30. 72.] [Footnote 297: _Pro Caelio_, 31. 74.] [Footnote 298: _Roman Education_, ch. v.] [Footnote 299: Rhetorica ad Herenniwm, init. The date of this work was about 82 B.C. See a paper by the author in Journal of Philology, x. 197.] [Footnote 300: H. Nettleship, _Lectures_, etc., p. III; Wilkins, p. 85; Quintil. xii. 2.] [Footnote 301: Wilkins, _l.c._] [Footnote 302: Quintil. i. 4. 5; xii. 1. 1; xii. 2 and 7.] [Footnote 303: _Ib._ xii. 1. 11.] [Footnote 304: Plut. _Cic._ 4; _Caes._ 3.] [Footnote 305: _ad Fam._ xvi. 21. The translation is based on Mr. Shuckburgh's.] [Footnote 306: See _Der Horn, Gutsbetrieb_, by H. Gummerus, reprinted from _Klio_, 1906: an excellent specimen of economic research, to which I am much indebted in this chapter.--E. Meyer, _Die Sclaverei im Altertum_, p. 46.] [Footnote 307: Strabo, p. 668.] [Footnote 308: Livy, xlv. 34.] [Footnote 309: Livy, _Epit._ 68.] [Footnote 310: Caesar, _B.G._ ii. 33.] [Footnote 311: _ad Att._ v. 20. 5.]