Tracts
of the Times, Vol. 1, no. 34.]
[Footnote 62: Our ardent love of this classic soil tempts us to insert
the following noble instance from Cicero (pro Milone XXXI) "Vos enim
jam _Albani_ tumuli atque luci vos, inquam, imploro alque tester
vosque Albanorum obrutae arae, sacrorum populi Romani sociae et aequales,
quas ille praeceps amentia caesis prostratisque sanctissimi lucis
substructionum insanis molibus oppresserat: vestrae tum arae, vestrae
religiones viguerunt, vestra vis valuit, quam ille (Clodius) omni
scelere polluarat: tuque ex tuo edito monte, Latiaris sancte Jupiter,
cujus ille lacus, nemora, finesque saepe omni nefario stupro et scelere
macularat, aliquaudo ad eum puniendum oculos aperuisti: vobis illae,
vobis vestro in conspecta serae sed justae tamen et debitae paenae solutae
sunt".]
[Footnote 63: These _troccole_ were formerly called by the hard names
of _crepitacula ligna congregantia, mallei excitatorii_. The Greeks
used them anciently, as Martene proves from a libellus de miraculis
Anastasii presented to the second council of Nice, from S. John
Chrysostom's life by Metaphrastes etc. etc. In modern times also they
continue to use them. Benedict XIV observes that the practice of the
Latin church on these days is intended to preserve the remembrance of
the ancient custom. It is also evidently intended, like the reversed
arms of the soldiers, as a sign of mourning for the death of Christ.
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