[6] Gibbon, c. i. and c. xxxii. Agathias states the military establishment in its best days at 675,000, which is much more likely its real amount. Agathias, v. p. 157, Paris edition.
[8] Ibid. vol. iii. c. xviii. p. 87. Edition in twelve volumes.
[9] "Arantur Gallicana rura _barbaris bobus_, et juga Germanica captiva præbent colla nostris cultoribus."--_Probi Epist. ad Senatum, in Vopesio._
[10] Michelet, _Histoire de France_, vol. i. p. 104-108.
"Advenio supplex, non ut proculcet Araxen Consul ovans, nostræve premant pharetrata secures Susa, nec ut Rubris aquilas figamus arenis. Hæc nobis, hæc ante dabas.--Nunc pabula tantum Roma precor. Miserere tuæ, Pater Optime, gentis-- Extremam defende famem.
Tot mihi pro meritis Lybiam Nilumque dedêre Ut _dominam plebem_ bellatoremque senatum Classibus astivis alerent.
Nunc inhonorus, egens, perfert miserabile pacis Supplicium, nulloque palam circumdatus hoste Obessi discrimen habet. Per singula letum Impendet momenta mihi, dubitandaque pauci Præscribunt alimenta dies."--CLAUD. _De Bello Gild._
[16] Finlay's _Greece under the Romans_, 435, 436.
[20] _Greece under the Romans_, 456, 467.
[24] Sismondi, _Chute de l'Empire Romaine_, i. 36.
[29] Finlay, 544. Ammianus Marcellinus, c. xix.
[30] Sismondi, _Chute de l'Empire Romaine_, i. 50.
[38] Novell Majorian, tit. iv. p. 34. Gibbon, c. xxxvi. vol. vi. p. 173.
[44] [Greek: Peri tou mêdein Daneixeisthai.] "De Ære Alieno vitando."--_Plutarch._
[46] "Verumque confitentibus latifundia perdidêre Italiam, immo ac provincias."--Plin. _Hist. Nat._
[47] Sismondi, _Chute de l'Empire Romaine_, i. 51.
[49] Sismondi, _Chute de l'Empire Romaine_, i. 44.
[51] It is curious to find Tacitus praising the establishment _of bounties on_ the importation of foreign grain by Tiberius, without a word on the evil effects of the system.--_Annal._ vi. 13. "Quibus _e provinciis et quanto majorum, quam Augustus_ rei frumentariæ copiam advectaret."
[56] Michelet, _Histoire de France_, i. 277.
[57] _Edinburgh Review._ April 1846. No. 168. Page 370-371.
[58] Sismondi, _Chute de l'Empire Romaine_, i. 233.
[62] Jacob's _Historical Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals_, i. 35, 42.
[67] _Arbuthnott on Ancient Coins_, c. 5. Gibbon, i. 90, c. ii.