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buckler fell from heaven into the hands of Numa. Of this he gave a very wonderful account, received from Egeria and the Muses: that the buckler was sent down for the preservation of the city, and should be kept with great care: that eleven others should be made as like it as possible in size and fashion, in order that if any person were disposed to steal it, he might not be able to distinguish that which fell from heaven from the rest. He further declared, that the place, and the meadows about it, where he frequently conversed with the Muses, should be consecrated to those divinities; and that the spring which watered the ground should be sacred to the use of the Vestal Virgins, daily to sprinkle and purify their temple. The immediate cessation of the pestilence is said to have confirmed the truth of this account."—Life of Numa.
Note 9, page 107, line 6.
Sunk is the crowning city's throne.
"Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?"—Isaiah, chap. 23.
Note 10, page 107, line 8.
Their guardian spells, have long been past.
"Un mélange bizarre de grandeur d'ame, et de foiblesse entroit dès cette époque, (l’onzième siècle) dans le caractère des Romains.—Un mouvement généreux vers les grandes choses faisoit place tout-à-coup à l’abattement; ils passoient de la liberté la plus orageuse, a la servitude la plus avilissante. On auroit dit que les ruines et les portiques deserts
