The master, who intended to enfranchize a slave, carried him before the city prætor, and turned him round, using these words, "I will that this man be free." Note XII. _Now Marcus Dama is his worship's name._--P. 256. Slaves had only one name before their freedom; after it they were admitted to a prænomen, like our christened names: so Dama is now called Marcus Dama. Note XIII. _A will is to be proved;--put in your claim;-- 'Tis clear, if Marcus has subscribed his name._--P. 256. At the proof of a testament, the magistrates were to subscribe their names, as allowing the legality of the will. Note XIV. _What farther can we from our caps receive, Than as we please without controul to live._--P. 256. Slaves, when they were set free, had a cap given them, in sign of their liberty. Note XV. _Noble Brutus._--P. 256. Brutus freed the Roman people from the tyranny of the Tarquins, and changed the form of the government into a glorious commonwealth. Note XVI. _Excepting still the letter of the law._--P. 256. The text of the Roman laws was written in red letters, which was called the Rubric; translated here, in more general words, "The letter of the law." Note XVII. _Virtue and vice are never in one soul; A man is wholly wise, or wholly is a fool._--P. 257. The Stoics held this paradox, that any one vice, or notorious folly, which they called madness, hindered a man from being virtuous; that a man was of a piece, without a mixture, either wholly vicious, or good; one virtue or vice, according to them, including all the rest. Note XVIII. ----_Him that freed thee by the prætor's wand._--P. 258. The prætor held a wand in his hand, with which he softly struck the slave on the head, when he declared him free. Note XIX. ----_Says Phædria to his man._--P. 259. This alludes to the play of Terence, called "The Eunuch;" which was excellently imitated of late in English, by Sir Charles Sedley.[254] In the first scene of that comedy, Phædria was introduced with his man, Pamphilus, discoursing, whether he should leave his mistress Thais, or return to her, now that she had invited him. Note XX. _But write him down a slave, who, humbly proud, With presents begs preferments from the crowd._--P. 260. He who sued for any office amongst the Romans, was called a candidate, because he wore a white gown; and sometimes chalked it, to make it appear whiter. He rose early, and went to the levees of those who headed the people; saluted also the tribes severally, when they were gathered together to chuse their magistrates; and distributed a largess amongst them, to engage them for their voices; much resembling our elections of Parliamentmen. Note XXI. ----_On Herod's day._--P. 260.