_April, 1827._
[143] Hospinian de Orig. Festorum--Polydore Virgil--and Godwin Antiq.
[144] Aug. de Civit. Dei--Rosinus de Antiquit. Rom.--and Hall’s
Funebria Floræ.
[145] The Romans having undertaken to drain the fens, and rescue marsh
lands, by strong embankments, from the ravages of the ocean, founded
Lynn, (it is supposed,) in the reign of the emperor _Claudius_, under
the direction of _Catus Decianus_, the Roman procurator of the
_Iceni_, who was the principal superintendant of the canals,
embankments, and other works of improvement then carried on in the
fens. He is also thought to have brought over to his assistance, in
this stupendous labour, a colony of Belgians, or Batavians, from whose
dialect, the Belgio Celtique, the etymology of Lynn is considered to
be derived. (Richard’s Hist. of Lynn, vol. i. p. 221.)
[146] By sound of _trumpet_ all the courtezans in Rome were called to
the _Floralian_ sports, where they danced, it is said, (though greatly
to be doubted,) in a state of nudity, about the streets, with the
_trumpets_ blown before them. Hence Juvenal, (Sat. 60,) speaking of a
lewd woman, calls her a _Floralian courtezan_ (Godwin Antiq.--Polydore
Virgil--Farnab. in Martial, Epig. 110. 1.--Hall’s Funebria Floræ.)
[147] _Io_, in heathen mythology, was the daughter of Inachus,
transformed by Jupiter into a white heifer, and worshipped under the
name of _Isis_ by the Egyptians. _Serapis_ was the son of Jupiter and
Niobe; he first taught the Egyptians to sow corn and plant vines; and,
after his death, was worshipped as an ox, under the name of _Osiris_.
[148] Every-Day Book, vol. i. p. 556.
[149] A copy of Hall’s _Funebria Floræ_ was sold January 20, 1819, in
the Bindley Collection, for £6. 12_s._ 6_d._
[150] Ordinance of Parliament, 1644:--see _Every-Day Book_, vol. i. p.
556.
[151] Elton’s Exposition of the Second Commandment.
[152] Ames, Cas. Cons. I v. c. 39.
[153] Babington on the Seventh Commandment.
[154] Bishop Andrews’s Exposition of the Seventh Commandment.
[155] Ovid, Fastorum, lib. v.
[156] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1822.
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