Footnote 7:
The power of the Tribunate was revived after Appius’s decemvirate in
450 B.C., but the office had been founded more than forty years
before. On the other hand, consular tribunes were first elected after
450 (in 445); but the consular tribunate could hardly be described as
a “great revolution.” The author may be confusing the two
tribunates.—Tr.
Footnote 8:
_Cp._ Homer, “Odyssey,” XV, 415 _sqq._
Footnote 9:
Augustin Thierry, _Récits des temps mérovingiens_; see especially the
story of Mummolus.
Footnote 10:
Cæsar, the democrat and sceptic, knew how to hold language contrary to
his opinions when it was necessary. His funeral oration on his aunt is
very curious: “On the mother’s side,” he said, “Julia was descended
from kings; on her father’s, from the immortal gods: for the Marcian
Reges, whose name her mother bore, were sprung from Ancus Marcius,
while Venus is the ancestress of the Julii, the clan to which belongs
the family of the Cæsars. Thus in our blood is mingled at the same
time the sanctity of kings, who are the mightiest of men, and the
awful majesty of the gods, who hold kings themselves in their power”
(Suetonius, “Julius,” p. 6). Nothing could be more monarchical; and
also, for an atheist, nothing could be more religious.
Footnote 11:
Acts xxvi, 24, 28, 31.
Footnote 12:
The reader will understand that I am not speaking of the political
existence of a centre of sovereignty, but of the life of a whole
society, or the span of a whole civilization. The distinction drawn at
the beginning of chap. ii must be applied here.
Footnote 13:
The celebrated physiologist (1771–1802), and author of _L’Anatomie
générale_.—Tr.
Footnote 14:
This attachment of the Arab tribes to their racial unity shows itself
sometimes in a very curious manner. A traveller (M. Fulgence Fresnel,
I think) says that at Djiddah, where morals are very lax, the same
Bedouin girl who will sell her favours for the smallest piece of money
would think herself dishonoured if she contracted a legal marriage
with the Turk or European to whom she contemptuously lends herself.
Footnote 15:
The man
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys;
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate’er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame
A mechanized automaton.
SHELLEY, “Queen Mab.”
Footnote 16:
Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV.—Tr.
Footnote 17:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account