se was to command
the knights, and execute the orders of the dictator. He was usually
nominated from amongst persons of consular and praetorian dignity; and had
the use of a horse, which the dictator had not, without the order of the
people.]

[Footnote 23: Seneca compares the annals of Tanusius to the life of a
fool, which, though it may be long, is worthless; while that of a wise
man, like a good book, is valuable, however short.--Epist. 94.]

[Footnote 24: Bibulus was Caesar's colleague, both as edile and consul.
Cicero calls his edicts "Archilochian," that is, as full of spite as the
verses of Archilochus.--Ad. Attic. b. 7. ep. 24.]

[Footnote 25: A.U.C. 689. Cicero holds both the Curio's, father and son,
very cheap.--Brut. c. 60.]

[Footnote 26: Regnum, the kingly power, which the Roman people considered
an insupportable tyranny.]

[Footnote 27: An honourable banishment.]

[Footnote 28: The assemblies of the people were at first held in the open
Forum. Afterwards, a covered building, called the Comitium, was erected
for that purpose. There are no remains of it, but Lumisden thinks that it
probably stood on the south side of the Forum, on the site of the present
church of The Consolation.--Antiq. of Rome, p. 357.]

[Footnote 29: Basilicas, from Basileus; a king. They were, indeed, the
palaces of the sovereign people; stately and spacious buildings, with
halls, which served the purpose of exchanges, council chambers, and courts
of justice. Some of the Basilicas were afterwards converted into
Christian churches. "The form was oblong; the middle was an open space to
walk in, called Testudo, and which we now call the nave. On each side of
this were rows of pillars, which formed what we should call the
side-aisles, and which the ancients called Porticus. The end of the
Testudo was curved, like the apse of some of our churches, and was called
Tribunal, from causes being heard there. Hence the term Tribune is
applied to that part of the Roman churches which is behind the high
altar."--Burton's Antiq. of Rome, p. 204.]

[Footnote 30: Such as statues and pictures, the works of Greek artists.]

[Footnote 31: It appears to have stood at the foot of the Capitoline
hill. Piranesi thinks that the two beautiful columns of white marble,
which are commonly described as belonging to the portico of the temple of
Jupiter Stator, are the remains of the temple of Castor and Pollux.]

[Footnote 32: Ptolemy Aul