Part 6

Now Vicenza.

"Audiat haec tantum vel qui venit, ecce, Palaemon."--Eccl. iii. 50.

All the editions have the word vitem; but we might conjecture, from the large produce, that it is a mistake for vineam, a vineyard: in which case the word vasa might be rendered, not bottles, but casks. The amphora held about nine gallons. Pliny mentions that Remmius bought a farm near the turning on the Nomentan road, at the tenth mile-stone from Rome.

"Usque ad infamiam oris."--See TIBERIUS, p. 220, and the notes.

Now Beyrout, on the coast of Syria. It was one of the colonies founded by Julius Caesar when he transported 80,000 Roman citizens to foreign parts.--JULIUS, xlii.

This senatus consultum was made A.U.C. 592.

Hirtius and Pansa were consuls A.U.C. 710.

See NERO, c. x.

As to the Bullum, see before, JULIUS, c. lxxxiv.

This extract given by Suetonius is all we know of any epistle addressed by Cicero to Marcus Titinnius.

See Cicero's Oration, pro Caelio, where Atracinus is frequently mentioned, especially cc. i. and iii.

"Hordearium rhetorem."

From the manner in which Suetonius speaks of the old custom of chaining one of the lowest slaves to the outer gate, to supply the place of a watch-dog, it would appear to have been disused in his time.

The work in which Cornelius Nepos made this statement is lost.

Pliny mentions with approbation C. Epidius, who wrote some treatises in which trees are represented as speaking; and the period in which he flourished, agrees with that assigned to the rhetorician here named by Suetonius. Plin. xvii. 25.

Isauricus was consul with Julius Caesar II., A.U.C. 705, and again with L. Antony, A.U.C. 712.

A river in the ancient Campania, now called the Sarno, which discharges itself into the bay of Naples.

Epidius attributes the injury received by his eyes to the corrupt habits he contracted in the society of M. Antony.

The direct allusion is to the "style" or probe used by surgeons in opening tumours.

Mark Antony was consul with Julius Caesar, A.U.C. 709. See before, JULIUS, c. lxxix.

Philipp. xi. 17.

Leontium, now called Lentini, was a town in Sicily, the foundation of which is related by Thucydides, vi. p. 412. Polybius describes the Leontine fields as the most fertile part of Sicily. Polyb. vii. 1. And see Cicero, contra Verrem, iii. 46, 47.

Novara, a town of the Milanese.

St. Jerom in Chron. Euseb. describes Lucius Munatius Plancus as the disciple of Cicero, and a celebrated orator. He founded Lyons during the time he governed that part of the Roman provinces in Gaul.

See AUGUSTUS, c. xxxvi.

He meant to speak of Cisalpine Gaul, which, though geographically a part of Italy, did not till a late period enjoy the privileges of the other territories united to Rome, and was administered by a praetor under the forms of a dependent province. It was admitted to equal rights by the triumvirs, after the death of Julius Caesar. Albutius intimated that those rights were now in danger.