n his lamentation
over his dead body.

[360] She was the sister of Germanicus, and Tacitus calls her Livia; but
Suetonius is in the habit of giving a fondling or diminutive term to the
names of women, as Claudilla, for Claudia, Plautilla, etc.

[361] Priam is said to have had no less than fifty sons and daughters;
some of the latter, however, survived him, as Hecuba, Helena, Polyxena,
and others.

[362] There were oracles at Antium and Tibur. The "Praenestine Lots"
are described by Cicero, De Divin. xi. 41.

[363] Agrippina, and Nero and Drusus.

[364] He is mentioned before in the Life of AUGUSTUS, c. xc.; and also
by Horace, Cicero, and Tacitus.

[365] Obscure Greek poets, whose writings were either full of fabulous
stories, or of an amatory kind.

[366] It is suggested that the text should be amended, so that the
sentence should read--"A Greek soldier;" for of what use could it have
been to examine a man in Greek, and not allow him to give his replies in
the same language?

[367] So called from Appius Claudius, the Censor, one of Tiberius's
ancestors, who constructed it. It took a direction southward of Rome,
through Campania to Brundusium, starting from what is the present Porta
di San Sebastiano, from which the road to Naples takes its departure.

[368] A small town on the coast of Latium, not far from Antium, and the
present Nettuno. It was here that Cicero was slain by the satellites of
Antony.

[369] A town on a promontory of the same dreary coast, between Antium
and Terracina, built on a promontory surrounded by the sea and the marsh,
still called Circello.

[370] Misenum, a promontory to which Aeneas is said to have given its
name from one of his followers. (Aen. ii. 234.) It is now called Capo
di Miseno, and shelters the harbour of Mola di Gaieta, belonging to
Naples. This was one of the stations of the Roman fleet.

[371] Tacitus agrees with Suetonius as to the age of Tiberius at the
time of his death. Dio states it more precisely, as being seventy-seven
years, four months, and nine days.

[372] Caius Caligula, who became his successor.

[373] Tacitus and Dio add that he was smothered under a heap of heavy
clothes.

[374] In the temple of the Palatine Apollo. See AUGUSTUS, c. xxix.

[375] Atella, a town between Capua and Naples, now called San Arpino,
where there was an amphitheatre. The people seemed to have raised the
shout in derision, referring, perhaps, to t