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[689] Faunus was supposed to be the third king who reigned over the
original inhabitants of the central parts of Italy, Saturn being the
first. Virgil makes his wife's name Marica--

Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica
Accipimus.--Aen. vii. 47.

Her name may have been changed after her deification; but we have no
other accounts than those preserved by Suetonius, of several of the
traditions handed down from the fabulous ages respecting the Vitellian
family.

[690] The Aequicolae were probably a tribe inhabiting the heights in the
neighbourhood of Rome. Virgil describes them, Aen. vii. 746.

[691] Nuceria, now Nocera, is a town near Mantua; but Livy, in treating
of the war with the Samnites, always speaks of Luceria, which Strabo
calls a town in Apulia.

[692] Cassius Severus is mentioned before, in AUGUSTUS, c. lvi.;
CALIGULA, c. xvi., etc.

[693] A.U.C. 785.

[694] A.U.C. 787.

[695] He is frequently commended by Josephus for his kindness to the
Jews. See, particularly, Antiq. VI. xviii.

[696] A.U.C. 796, 800.

[697] A.U.C. 801.

[698] A.U.C. 797. See CLAUDIUS, c. xvii.

[699] A.U.C. 801.

[700] A.U.C. 767; being the year after the death of the emperor
Augustus; from whence it appears that Vitellius was seventeen years older
than Otho, both being at an advanced age when they were raised to the
imperial dignity.

[701] He was sent to Germany by Galba.

[702] See TIBERIUS, c. xliii.

[703] Julius Caesar, also, was said to have exchanged brass for gold in
the Capitol, Junius, c. liv. The tin which we here find in use at Rome,
was probably brought from the Cassiterides, now the Scilly islands.
whence it had been an article of commerce by the Phoenicians and
Carthaginians from a very early period.

[704] A.U.C. 821.

[705] A.U.C. 822.

[706] Vienne was a very ancient city of the province of Narbonne, famous
in ecclesiastical history as the early seat of a bishopric in Gaul.

[707] See OTHO, c. ix.

[708] See OTHO, c. ix.

[709] Agrippina, the wife of Nero and mother of Germanicus, founded a
colony on the Rhine at the place of her birth. Tacit. Annal. b. xii. It
became a flourishing city, and its origin may be traced in its modern
name, Cologne.

[710] A dies non fastus, an unlucky day in the Roman calendar, being the
anniversary of their great defeat by the Gauls on the river Allia, which
joins the Tiber about five miles from Rome. T