[432] Athen. Deipn. vi. 8. p. 236.
[433] Joh. Meursii Opera, ex recensione Joannis Lami. Florent. 1745,
fol. v. p. 635.
[434] Pet. cap. lxxix. That the author here speaks of Naples, I
conclude from cap. lxxxi., where the city is called _Græca urbs_.
Others, however, with less probability, are of opinion that _Capua_ is
meant.
[435] Libanii Opera, Lutet. 1627, fol. ii. p. 387.
[436] Ib. 526.
[437] See vol. ii. p. 170.
[438] Valesius informs us, in his observations on Ammianus Marcellinus,
that to denote public sorrow, on occasions of great misfortune, it was
customary not to light the streets; and in proof of this assertion
he quotes a passage of Libanius, where it is said that the people of
Antioch, in order to mitigate the anger of the emperor, bethought
themselves of lighting either no lamps or a very small number.
[439] Assemani Bibliotheca Orientalis. Romæ, 1719, fol. i. p. 281.
[440] It was called by the Greeks λυχνοκαία.
[441] Herodot. lib. ii. cap. 62.
[442] Suet. Vita Calig. c. 18.
[443] Euseb. lib. iv. De Vita Constantini, cap. 22. Compare with the
above Greg. Naz. Orat. 19, and Orat. 2, where the author alludes to the
festival of Easter.
[444] Tertuliian. de Idololatria, cap. xv. p. 523. See also his
Apologet. cap. 35, p. 178. In both places La Cerda quotes similar
passages from other writers. In Concilio Eliberitano, cap. 37, it was
decreed “prohibendum etiam ne lucernas publice accendant.” See also
Joh. Ciampini Vetera Monumenta, in quibus musiva opera illustrantur.
Romæ, 1690, 2 vols. fol. i. p. 90, where, on a piece of mosaic work,
said to be of the fifth century, some lamps are represented hanging
over a door.
[445] J. Lipsii Electa, lib. ii. cap. 3.
[446] This order may be seen in that large and elegant work, entitled
Histoire de la Ville de Paris, Felibien, revue, augmentée par Lobineau,
Paris, 1725, 5 vols. folio. See vol. ii. pp. 951, 977, and vol. iv. pp.
648, 676, 764.
[447] Paris, 1770, x. p. 265.
[448] Essai sur les Lanternes. A Dole, 1775.
[449] History of London. London, 1756, 2 vols. fol. i. p. 186.
[450] Noorthouck’s History of London. Lond. 1773, 4to, p. 233. For the
safety and peace of the city, all inhabitants were ordered to hang out
candles duly at the accustomed hour.
[451] See Twiss and Dalrymple’s Travels.
[452] Swinburne’s Travels through Spain, 1779, 4to.
[453] Nicolai Beschreibung von Berlin und Potsdam, pp. 308, 971.
[454] Nicolai Beschreibung einer Reise, iii. pp. 212, 214.
[455] Philosophical Magazine for March, 1846.