Part 18

Venus' husband.

Suetonius, in his Life of Julius Cæsar (c. 6), relates that, in pronouncing a funeral oration in praise of his aunt Julia, Cæsar claimed for the Julian gens to which his family belonged a descent from Venus, through Iulus, son of Eneas.

Livy, 83, one of the lost books; and Appian, in Mithridat.

The gates of Janus were not the gates of a temple, but the gates of a passage called Janus, which was used only for military purposes; shut therefore in peace, open in war.

The year of the Consuls T. Manlius and C. Atilius, A. U. C. 519.

Sall. Conj. Cat. ii.

Æneid, viii. 326-7.

Sall. Cat. Conj. vi.

Æneid, xi. 532.

Ibid. x. 464.

Livy, x. 47.

Being son of Apollo.

Virgil, Æn. i. 286.

Pharsal. v. 1.

Æneid, x. 821, of Lausus:

"But when Anchises' son surveyed The fair, fair face so ghastly made, He groaned, by tenderness unmanned, And stretched the sympathizing hand," etc.

Virgil, Æneid, vi. 813.

Sallust, Cat. Conj. ii.

Ps. x. 3.

Æneid, ii. 351-2.

Cicero, De Rep. ii. 10.

Contra Cat. iii. 2.

Æneid, vi. 820, etc.

His nephew.

Hist. i.

Lectisternia, from lectus, a couch, and sterno, I spread.

Proletarius, from proles, offspring.

The oracle ran: "Dico te, Pyrrhe, vincere posse Romanos."