16, in Domitian, c.

4, 7.

These baskets of provisions were afterwards converted into large pieces of gold and silver coin, or plate, which were mutually given and accepted even by persons of the highest rank, (see Symmach.epist.iv.55, ix.

124, and Miscell.p.

256,) on solemn occasions, of consulships, marriages, &c.] [Footnote 45: The want of an English name obliges me to refer to the common genus of squirrels, the Latin glis, the French loir; a little animal, who inhabits the woods, and remains torpid in cold weather, (see Plin.Hist.Natur.viii.82.