[17.4] See for example the funeral oration on Turia by her husband, Q. Lucretius Vespillo, of which the complete epigraphic text was first published by Mommsen in _Memoires de l'Academie de Berlin_, 1863, p. 455, &c. Compare funeral oration on Murdia (Orelli, Inscr. Lat. No. 4860), and on Matilda by the emperor Adrian (_Mem. de l'Acad. de Berlin_, u. s. 483, &c.). We are too much preoccupied by passages of the Latin satirists in which the vices of women are sharply exposed. It is as if we were to design a general tableau of the morals of the seventeenth century from Mathurin, Regnier, and Boileau. [17.5] Orelli, Nos. 2647, &c., especially 2677, 2742, 4530, 4860; Henzen, Nos. 7382, &c., especially No. 7406; Renier, Inscr. de l'Algerie, No. 1987. They may have been false epithets, but they prove at least the estimation of virtue. [17.6] Plin. _Epist._ vii. 19; ix. 13; Appian, Bell. Civ. iv. 36. Fannia twice followed to exile her husband, Helvidius Priscus, and was banished a third time after his death. [17.7] The heroism of Arria is well known. [17.8] Suet. _Aug._ 73; Fun. Orat. on Turia, i, line 30. [17.9] Ib. 31. [17.10] The too severe opinion of Paul (Rom. i. 24, &c.) is explicable in the same way. Paul was not acquainted with the higher social life of Rome. Besides, these clerical invectives are not to be taken literally. [17.11] Sen. Ep. xii., xxiv., xxvi., lviii., lxx.; De Ira. iii. 15. De Tranq. anim. 10. [17.12] Apoc. xvii.; Cf. Sen. Ep. xcv. 16, &c. [17.13] Suet. _Aug._ 48. [17.14] The inscriptions contain countless examples. [17.15] Plut. Græc. Ger. Reipubl. xv. 3-4; An seni sit ger. resp., passim. [17.16] Jos. Ant. xiv., x. 22, 23; Comp. Tacit. _Ann._ iv. 55, 56. Rutilius Numatianus, _Itin._ i. 63, &c. [17.17] "Immensa romanæ pacis majestas." Plin. _Hist. Nat._ xxvii. 1. [17.18] Ælius Arist. _Eloge de Rome_, passim; Plut. _Fortune_ des _Romains_; Philo. _Leg. ad Caium_, § 21, 22, 39, 40. [17.19] Dion. Hal. Antiq. Rom. i., comm. [17.20] Plut. Solon. 20. [17.21] See Athen. xii. 68; Ælian, _Var._ Hist. ix. 12; Suidas, word Ἐπίκουρος. [17.22] Tacit. _Ann._ i. 2. [17.23] Study the character of Euthyphron in Plato. [17.24] Diog. Laert. ii. 101, 116; v. 5, 6, 37, 38; ix. 52; Athen. xiii. 92; xv. 52; Ælian, _Var. Hist._ ii. 23; iii. 36; Plut. Pericles, 32; De Plac. Philos. I, vii. 2; Diod. Sic. XIII., vi. 7; Aristoph. in Aves, 1073. [17.25] Particularly under Vespasian, as in the case of Helvidius Priscus. [17.26] We shall show later that these persecutions, at least until that of Decius, have been much exaggerated.