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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
In the volume of “Miscellanies,” which has recently appeared under the able editing of your Lordship, are some remarks by Lord Macaulay, Sir Robert Peel, and yourself, on the Use of Human Sacrifices by the Romans. These remarks, which I have read with great interest, lead me to turn to various passages in classical authors that bear on the subject. The result of my inquiry I take the liberty of forwarding to your Lordship. I have not attempted to make any selection of the extracts, and, as I have no theory to support, I must request your Lordship to consider them merely materials for the use of some one with more leisure and greater ability than myself.
page 250 note a Vol. ii. p. 340.
page 251 note a Vol. ii. p. 339.
page 253 note a i.e. “artis magicœ;” the sacrifice, therefore, must have been “inter peregrina.” It is remarkable that this prohibition of human sacrifices was enacted only nine years after the birth of Cicero, and three after that of Julius Cæsar.
page 253 note b Alex. ab Alexandro cites this passage (Dier. Genial, vi. 26), and his commentator, Antonio Tiraquelli, gives some illustrative notes.
page 254 note a Dionysius Halicarn. i. 38, speaks to the same purpose, but ascribes human sacrifices in Italy to a pre-historic period, adding, that the Carthaginians and Keltic nations practised them εἰς τόδε χρόνου..
page 254 note b The association of the “pontifex cum tacita virgine” (Horace, iii. carm. 3, 9), is perhaps worth remarking.
page 254 note c Dionysius Hal. l.c.
page 255 note a περιορισμοὺς. The Ambarvalia described by Tibullus, ii. el. 1.
page 256 note a These are passages referred to by Mr. Holden in his edition of Minutius Felix (Camb. 1853), on the subject of Jupiter Latiaris. (Minut. Felix, c. xxi. s. 15.)