g their hands to the traces: and if a
boy happened to let go the thong which he held, it was an indispensable
rule that the procession should be renewed.

[186] The Cavea was the name of the whole of that part of the theatre
where the spectators sat. The foremost rows were called cavea prima, of
cavea; the last, cavea ultima, or summa; and the middle, cavea media.

[187] A.U.C. 726.

[188] As in the case of Herod, Joseph. Antiq. Jud. xv. 10.

[189] The Adriatic and the Tuscan.

[190] It was first established by Tiberius. See c. xxxvii.

[191] Tertullian, in his Apology, c. 34, makes the same remark. The
word seems to have conveyed then, as it does in its theological sense
now, the idea of Divinity, for it is coupled with Deus, God; nunquum se
dominum vel deum appellare voluerit.

[192] An inclosure in the middle of the Forum, marking the spot where
Curtius leapt into the lake, which had been long since filled up.

[193] Sandalarium, Tragoedum; names of streets, in which temples of tame
gouts stood, as we now say St. Peter, Cornhill, etc.

[194] A coin, in value about 8 3/4 d. of our money.

[195] The senate, as instituted by Romulus, consisted of one hundred
members, who were called Patres, i. e. Fathers, either upon account of
their age, or their paternal care of the state. The number received some
augmentation under Tullus Hostilius; and Tarquinius Priscus, the fifth
king of Rome, added a hundred more, who were called Patres minorum
gentium; those created by Romulus being distinguished by the name of
Patres majorum gentium. Those who were chosen into the senate by Brutus,
after the expulsion of Tarquin the Proud, to supply the place of those
whom that king had slain, were called Conscripti, i. e. persons written
or enrolled among the old senators, who alone were properly styled
Patres. Hence arose the custom of summoning to the senate those who were
Patres, and those who were Conscripti; and hence also was applied to the
senators in general the designation of Patres Conscripti, the particle
et, and, being understood to connect the two classes of senators. In the
time of Julius Caesar, the number of senators was increased to nine
hundred, and after his death to a thousand; many worthless persons having
been admitted into the senate during the civil wars. Augustus afterwards
reduced the number to six hundred.

[196] Antonius Musa was a freedman, and had acquired his knowledge of
medicine w