eral 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.]

[Footnote 196: Antonius Musa was a freedman, and had acquired his
knowledge of medicine while a domestic slave; a very common occurrence.]

[Footnote 197: A.U.C. 711.]

[Footnote 198: See cc. x. xi. xii. and xiii.]

[Footnote 199: One of them was Scipio, the father of Cornelia, whose
death is lamented by Propertius, iv. 12. The other is unknown.]

[Footnote 200: A.U.C. 715.]

[Footnote 201: He is mentioned by Horace:

Occidit Daci Cotisonis agimen. Ode 8, b. iii.]

Most probably Antony knew the imputation to be unfounded, and made it for
the purpose of excusing his own marriage with Cleopatra.]

[Footnote 202: This form of adoption consisted in a fictitious sale. See
Cicero, Topic. iii.]

[Footnote 203: Curiae. Romulus divided the people of Rome into three
tribes; and each tribe into ten Curiae. The number of tribes was
afterwards increased by degrees to thirty-five; but that of the Curiae
always remained the same.]

[Footnote 204: She was removed to Reggio in Calabria.]

[Footnote 205: Agrippa was first banished to the little desolate island
of Planasia, now Pianosa. It is one of the group in the Tuscan sea,
between Elba and Corsica.]

[Footnote 206: A quotation from the Iliad, 40, iii.; where Hector is
venting his rage on Paris. The inflexion is slightly changed, the line in
the original commencing, "Aith' opheles, etc., would thou wert, etc."]

[Footnote 207: Women called ustriculae, the barbers, were employed in
thin delicate operation. It is alluded to by Juvenal, ix. 4, and Martial,
v. 61.]

[Footnote 208: Cybele.--Gallus was either the name of a river in Phrygia,
supposed to cause a certain frenzy in those who drank of its waters, or
the proper name of the first priest of Cybele.]

[Footnote 209: A small drum, beat by the finger or thumb, was used by the
priests of Cybele in their lascivious rites and in other orgies of a
similar description, These drums were made of inflated skin, circular in
shape, so that they had some resemblance to the orb which, in the statues
of the emperor, he is repre