famous Colosseum begun by Trajan,
and finished by Titus. It is needless to go into details respecting a
building the gigantic ruins of which are so well known.]

[Footnote 753: Hercules is said, after conquering Geryon in Spain, to
have come into this part of Italy. One of his companions, the supposed
founder of Reate, may have had the name of Flavus.]

[Footnote 754: Vespasian and his son Titus had a joint triumph for the
conquest of Judaea, which is described at length by Josephus, De Bell.
Jud. vii. 16. The coins of Vespasian exhibiting the captive Judaea
(Judaea capta), are probably familiar to the reader. See Harphrey's Coin
Collector's Manual, p. 328.]

[Footnote 755: Demetrius, who was born at Corinth, seems to have been a
close imitator of Diogenes, the founder of the sect. Having come to Rome
to study under Apollonius, he was banished to the islands, with other
philosophers, by Vespasian.]

[Footnote 756: There being no such place as Morbonia, and the supposed
name being derived from morbus, disease, some critics have supposed that
Anticyra, the asylum of the incurables, (see CALIGULA, c. xxix.) is meant;
but the probability is, that the expression used by the imperial
chamberlain was only a courtly version of a phrase not very commonly
adopted in the present day.]

[Footnote 757: Helvidius Priscus, a person of some celebrity as a
philosopher and public man, is mentioned by Tacitus, Xiphilinus, and
Arrian.]

[Footnote 758: Cicero speaks in strong terms of the sordidness of retail
trade--Off. i. 24.]

[Footnote 759: The sesterce being worth about two-pence half-penny of
English money, the salary of a Roman senator was, in round numbers, five
thousand pounds a year; and that of a professor, as stated in the
succeeding chapter, one thousand pounds. From this scale, similar
calculations may easily be made of the sums occurring in Suetonius's
statements from time to time. There appears to be some mistake in the sum
stated in c. xvi. just before, as the amount seems fabulous, whether it
represented the floating debt, or the annual revenue, of the empire.]

[Footnote 760: See AUGUSTUS, c. xliii. The proscenium of the ancient
theatres was a solid erection of an architectural design, not shifted and
varied as our stage-scenes.]

[Footnote 761: Many eminent writers among the Romans were originally
slaves, such as Terence and Phaedrus; and, still more, artists, physicians
and artificers. Thei