Footnotes
[20]
In our days the Venetians, who in many respects may be said to
have a very wise government, decided a dispute between a noble Venetian
and a gentleman of Terra Firma in respect to precedency in a church, by
declaring that out of Venice a noble Venetian had no pre-eminence over
any other citizen.
[21]
It was inserted by the decemvirs in the two last tables. See
Dionysius Helicarnassus, x.
[22]
As in some aristocracies in our time; nothing is more
prejudicial to the government.
[23]
See in Strabo, xiv., in what manner the Rhodians behaved in this
respect.
[24]
"Amelot de la Houssaye," of the "Government of Venice," part III.
The Claudian law forbade the senators to have any ship at sea that held
above forty bushels. — Livy, xxi. 63.
[25]
The informers throw their scrolls into it.
[26]
See Livy, xlix. A censor could not be troubled even by a censor;
each made his remark without taking the opinion of his colleague; and
when it otherwise happened, the censorship was in a manner abolished.
[27]
At Athens the Logistæ, who made all the magistrates accountable
for their conduct, gave no account themselves.
[28]
It is so practised at Venice. — "Amelot de la Houssaye," pp. 30,
31.
[29]
The main design of some aristocracies seems to be less the
support of the state than of their nobility.
