in fabulous history, the pilot of Æneas, whose fate Virgil very pathetically describes. He fell into

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*Gaii Institutionum Commentarii iv. e codice rescripto Bibliothecæ Capitularis Veronensis, a Frid. Bluhmio iterum collato secundum edit. J. P. L. Goeschen. Accedit Fragmentum veteris Jurisconsulti de Jure Fisci, ex aliis ejusdem Bibliothecæ manuscriptorum transcriptum.* Berolini, 1824, 8vo. We have not met with the less perfect edition of 1820.

*Who was Gaius, and when did he flourish? This is a question which it has been found exceedingly difficult to answer. From a number of circumstances, however, it has been conjectured that he was born under Hadrian, that he began to write about the end of the reign of Antoninus Pius, that he attained the summit of his celebrity under M. Aurelius, and probably died under Commodus.*

"Scrisit autem ille, quidquid scribit, Institutiones," says Gravina, "unde suas magnum in partem depromptit Justinianus;" and Justinian himself, in speaking of his own Institutions, thus acknowledges his obligations to Gaius: "Quas, ex omnibus antiquarum institutionibus, et praecipue ex Commentariis Gaii nostrí, compositus," &c.