9, approaching the problem by three several methods, puts it in
the first century A.D. at 800,000, including slaves. In Cicero's time
it was, no doubt, considerably less; but we know that in his last
years 320,000 free persons were receiving doles of corn, apart from
slaves and the well-to-do.]
[Footnote 17: Huelsen-Jordan, _Roem. Topographie_, vol. i. part iii. pp.
627, 638.]
[Footnote 18: _Ib_. 643; Cic. _ad Att_. xv. 15. Here, after the death
of his daughter Tullia, Cicero wished to buy land on which to erect
a fanum to her (Cic. _ad Att_. xii. 19). Here also were the horti
Caesaris.]
[Footnote 19: Livy xxxv. 40.]
[Footnote 20: Huelsen-Jordan, _op. cit_. p. 143 note.]
[Footnote 21: See below, p. 302. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (iii. 68)
gives an elaborate account of it in the time of Augustus, when it had
been altered and ornamented.--Huelsen-Jordan, p. 120 foll.]
[Footnote 22: Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 199; Wissowa in
Pauly-Wissowa, _Real-Encyklopaedie_, s.v. Diana.]
[Footnote 23: The two roads converged just before arriving at the
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