[Footnote 511:  ad Fam. vii.  I. Professor Tyrrell calls this letter a rhetorical exercise; is it not rather one of those in which Cicero is taking pains to write, therefore writing less easily and naturally than usual?]

[Footnote 512:  I have used Mr. Shuckburgh’s translation, with one or two verbal changes.]

[Footnote 513:  Pliny, Nat.  Hist. viii. 21.]

[Footnote 514:  de Div. i. 37. 80.  Cp. the story in Plut. Cic. 5.]

[Footnote 515:  Hor. Ep. ii. 82; Quintil. ii. 3.  Ill.]

[Footnote 516:  Val.  Max. viii. 10. 2.  Cicero was said to have learnt gesticulation both from Aesopus and Roscius.—­Plut. Cic. 5.]

[Footnote 517:  Pliny, N.H. vii. 128.]

[Footnote 518:  Pro Archia, 8.]

[Footnote 519:  De Oratore, i. 28. 129.]

[Footnote 520:  De Oratore, iii. 27, 59.]

[Footnote 521:  A useful succinct account of the literature of this difficult subject will be found in Schanz, Gesch. der rom.  Litteratur, vol. i. (ed. 3) p. 21 foll.]

[Footnote 522:  This is the view of Mommsen, Hist. iii. p. 455, which is generally accepted.  For further information see Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature, i. (ed. 2) p. 9.  That they were in fashion before the mimus is gathered from Cic. ad Fam. ix. 16.]

[Footnote 523:  Plut. Sulla, 2:  ep. 36.]

[Footnote 524:  Political allusions in mimes, were, however, not unknown.  Cp.  Cic. ad Alt. xiv. 3, written in 44 B.C., after Caesar’s death.]

[Footnote 525:  All the passages about Publilius are collected in Mr. Bickford Smith’s edition of his Sententiae, p. 10 foll.  On mimes generally the reader may be referred to Professor Purser’s excellent article in Smith’s Diet. of Antiq. ed. 2.]

[Footnote 526:  Animo aequissimo, ad Fam. xii. 19.  He means perhaps rather that flattering allusions to Caesar did not hurt his feelings.]

[Footnote 527:  See Ribbeck, Fragm.  Comic.  Lat. p. 295 foll.]

[Footnote 528:  Seneca, Epist. 108. 8.]

[Footnote 529:  See another excellent article of Professor Purser’s in the Dict. of Antiq.]

[Footnote 530:  See the Hibbert Journal for July 1907, p. 847.  In the second sense Cicero often uses the plural “religiones,” esp. in de Legibus, ii.]

[Footnote 531:  See Middleton, Rome in 1887, p. 423; Horace, Sat. i. 8. 8 foll.; Nissen, Italische Landeskunde, ii. p. 522.]

[Footnote 532:  Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 336 foll.]

[Footnote 533:  Monumentum Ancyranum (Lat.), 4. 17.]

[Footnote 534:  de Nat.  Deor. i. 29. 82.]

[Footnote 535:  Valerius Maximus, Epit. 3. 4; Wissowa, Rel. und Kult. p. 293.]

[Footnote 536:  See, e.g.  Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, ch. v.]