ing brought from Cappadocia, and
says that it was as hard as marble, white and translucent, cxxiv. c. 22.

[832] See note to c. xvii.

[833] The guilt imputed to them was atheism and Jewish (Christian?)
manners. Dion, lxvii. 1112.

[834] See VESPASIAN, c. v.

[835] Columella (R. R. xi. 2.) enumerates dates among the foreign fruits
cultivated in Italy, cherries, dates, apricots, and almonds; and Pliny,
xv. 14, informs us that Sextus Papinius was the first who introduced the
date tree, having brought it from Africa, in the latter days of Augustus.

[836] Some suppose that Domitilla was the wife of Flavius Clemens
(c. xv.), both of whom were condemned by Domitian for their "impiety,"
by which it is probably meant that they were suspected of favouring
Christianity. Eusebius makes Flavia Domitilla the niece of Flavius
Clemens, and says that she was banished to Ponza, for having become a
Christian. Clemens Romanus, the second bishop of Rome, is said to have
been of this family.

[837] A.U.C. 849.

[838] See c. v.

[839] The famous library of Alexandria collected by Ptolemy Philadelphus
had been burnt by accident in the wars. But we find from this passage in
Suetonius that part of it was saved, or fresh collections had been made.
Seneca (de Tranquill. c. ix. 7) informs us that forty thousand volumes
were burnt; and Gellius states that in his time the number of volumes
amounted to nearly seventy thousand.

[840] This favourite apple, mentioned by Columella and Pliny, took its
name from C. Matius, a Roman knight, and friend of Augustus, who first
introduced it. Pliny tells us that Matius was also the first who brought
into vogue the practice of clipping groves.

[841] Julia, the daughter of Titus.

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