(Wright, "Celt, Roman, and Saxon", p.

320.) (12) See Book I., 411, and following lines.
(13) For the contempt here expressed for the Greek gymnastic schools, see also Tacitus, "Annals", 14, 21.

It is well known that Nero instituted games called Neronia which were borrowed from the Greeks; and that many of the Roman citizens despised them as foreign and profligate.

Merivale, chapter liii., cites this passage.
(14) Thus paraphrased by Dean Stanley: "I tremble not with terror, but with hope, As the great day reveals its coming scope; Never in earlier days, our hearts to cheer, Have such bright gifts of Heaven been brought so near, Nor ever has been kept the aspiring soul By space so narrow from so grand a goal." Inaugural address at St.Andrews.1873, on the "Study of Greatness".
(15) That such were Caesar's orders is also attested by Appian.
(16) See Book V., 463.
(17) That is, marked out the new colony with a plough-share.
This was regarded as a religious ceremony, and therefore performed by the Consul with his toga worn in ancient fashion.
(18) "Hath Jove no thunder ?" -- Ben Jonson, "Catiline", iii., 2.
(19) Compare Book I., line 600.
(20) This act of Crastinus is recorded by Plutarch ("Pompeius", 71), and by Caesar, "Civil War", Book III., 91.

Caesar called him by name and said: "Well, Crastinus, shall we win today ?" "We shall win with glory, Caesar," he replied in a loud voice, "and to-day you will praise me, living or dead." -- Durny, "History of Rome", vol.iii., 312.