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97

Sallust, Cat. Con. ix. Compare the similar saying of Tacitus regarding the chastity of the Germans: "Plusque ibi boni mores valent, quam alibi bonæ leges" (Germ. xix.).

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The same collocation of words is used by Cicero with reference to the well-known mode of renewing the appetite in use among the Romans.

99

2 Cor. xi. 14.

100

Cicero, C. Verrem, vi. 8.

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Cicero, C. Catilinam, iii. 8.

102

Alluding to the sanctuary given to all who fled to Rome in its early days.

103

Compare Aug. Epist. ad Deogratias, 102, 13; and De Præd. Sanct. 19.

104

Ch. iv.

105

Virg. Georg. i. 502, 'Laomedonteæ luimus perjuria Trojæ.'

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Iliad, xx. 293 et seqq.

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