Footnotes
[35]
Usury and interest among the Romans signified the same thing.
[36]
See Dionysius Halicarnassus, who has described it so well.
[37]
Usuræ semisses, trientes, quadrantes. See the several titles of the digests and codes on usury, and especially Leg. 17, with the note,
ff. de usuris.
[38]
See Appius's speech on this subject, in Dionysius Halicarnassus,
v.
[39]
"Annals," lib. vi, 16.
[40]
In the year of Rome 388. — Livy, lib. vi. 25.
[41]
Unciaria usura. — Ibid., lib. vii. 16.
[42]
"Annals," lib. vi. 16.
[43]
Under the consulate of L. Manlius Torquatus and C. Plautius,
according to Livy, lib. vii. 27. This is the law mentioned by Tacitus,
"Annals," lib. vi.
[45]
As Tacitus says, "Annals," lib. vi.
[46]
This law was passed at the instance of M. Genucius, tribune of
the people. — Livy, lib. vii, towards the end.
[47]
Verteri jam more fœnus receptum erat. -- Appian. On the Civil War, lib. i.
[48]
Permisit eos legibus agere. — Ibid.; and the "Epitome" of Livy, lib. lxiv.
[49]
In the year of Rome 663.
[51]
Letters to Atticus," lib. v, ep. 21.
[54]
In the year 561 of Rome. — See Livy, xxv. 7.
[55]
"Annals," lib. vi, 16.
[56]
In the year 615 of Rome.
[57]
See "Letters to Atticus," lib. iv, ep. 15 and 16.
[59]
Pompey having lent 600 talents to King Ariobarzanes, made that
prince pay him thirty Attic talents every thirty days. — Ibid., v. 21,
vi. 1.
[60]
Ut neque Salaminiis, neque cui eis dedisset, fraudi esset.-- Ibid.
[61]
Cicero's edict fixed it to one per cent a month, with interest
upon interest at the expiration of the year. With regard to the farmers
of the republic, he engaged them to grant a respite to their debtors; if
the latter did not pay at the time fixed, he awarded the
interestmentioned in the bond. — Ibid., lib. vi, ep. 1.
[62]
See what Lucretius says, in the 21st letter to Atticus, lib. v. There
was even a general Senatus Consultum, to fix the rate of interest at one
per cent per month. See the same letter.
[63]
Leg. 12, ff. de verb. signif.
