Note 80 — Chapter XL
A. R. (Arthur Richard) Shilleto translation
Iliad, ii. 100-108. Lest anybody should be surprised at a sceptre being called a spear let him remember the following words of Justin, xliii. 5. “Per ea adhuc tempora reges hastas pro diademate habebant, quas Græci sceptra dixere. Nam et ab origine rerum pro diis immortalibus veteres hastas coluere, ob cujus religionis memoriam adhuc deorum simulacris hastæ adduntur.”