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further proof that Eucolpius was a freeman, the language used by Eumolpiis a little 

 further on (§ 5) would furnish it : " In conspectu vestro supplices jacent juvenes, inge- 

 nui, honesti, et quod utroque potentins est, familiaritate vobis aliquando conjuncti." 



The above passage, therefore, while it does not aid us in determming the age of 

 our author, contains nothing inconsistent with the state of manners and customs i^re- 

 vailiug towards the close of the republican and the commencement of the imperial 

 period. 



28. C. 85. 1 : "In Asiam cum a quaestore essem stipendio eductus." Asia was, in 

 the time of Cicero, one of the eight praetorian provinces of the Roman empire, and 

 when Augustus made that master-stroke of policy by retaining those provinces in which 

 the strongest Roman armies were stationed under his own control, and leaAing the 

 others under the management of the senate, Asia remained one of the senatorial prov- 

 inces. The administration of the latter provinces remained, on the whole, the same as 

 it had been in the time of the republic. The financial affairs, particularly, which in 

 the imperial provinces were intrusted to special otficers, appointed by the emperor, 

 were in the senatorial provinces still administered by the qusestors, chosen in the nsual 

 manner. The manner in which the province of Asia and its qufestor are mentioned, 

 affords no definite clew to the time of our author ; it may refer to the period of Augus- 

 tus, or of a much later emperor (for the division into imperial and senatorial provinces, 

 and the mode of their administration, remained essentially the same until the time of 

 Constantine, who remodelled this whole branch of the government) ; but at the same 

 time it must be conceded that the expression contains nothing incompatible with the 

 later times of the republic or the reign of Augustus. 



One tenn in the phrase deserves some notice, namely, " stipendio." It does not 

 appear that Eumolpus accompanied the qusestor in a military capacity, but formed one 

 of his " cohors" or personal retinue; and yet " stipendium," in the sense of compensa- 

 tion, wages, salary, is, as far as I knoAV, exclusively applied to soldiers. The question 

 naturally arises. Were such personal attendants — " comites," as Horace calls them — 

 treated and paid as a part of the military staff of the magistrate 1 



29. C. 88. 5 : " Verum ut ad plastas convertar." The remarks previously made on 

 Petronius's criticisms of paintings, may be equally applied to his criticisms on the 

 works of the sculptors Lysippus and Myron. Though brief, they prove that the critic 

 has seen of what he speaks. A short statement of the fiicts in the case wiU show that 

 a contemporary of Augustus, living in Rome, could be acquainted with several works 

 of those two artists. 



Lysippus, one of the most distinguished sculptors, was a contemporary of Alexander, 



