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Footnotes

[61]

"A great many sold their children to pay their debts." -- Plutarch, "Life of Solon."

[62]

Ibid.

[63]

It appears from history that this custom was established among the Romans before the Law of the Twelve Tables. — Livy, dec. 1, ii. 23, 24.

[64]

Dionysius Halicarnassus. "Roman Antiquities," Book vi.

[65]

Plutarch, "Life of Furius Camillas."

[66]

See below, xxii. 22.

[67]

One hundred and twenty years after the law of the Twelve Tables: Eo anno plebi Romanæ, velut aliud initium libertatis factum est, quod necti desierunt. -- Livy, viii. 38.

[68]

"Bona debitoris, non corpus obnoxium esset."-- Ibid.

[69]

The year of Rome 465.

[70]

That of Plautius who made an attempt upon the body of Veturius. -- Valerius Maximus, vi, 1, art. 9. These two events ought not to be confounded; they are neither the same persons nor the same times.

[71]

See a fragment of Dionysius Halicarnassus in the "Extract of Virtues and Vices" [Historica]; Livy's Epitome, ii., and Freinshemius, ii.