[Footnote 237: Myrobrecheis. Suetonius often preserves expressive Greek
phrases which Augustus was in the habit of using. This compound word
meant literally, myrrh-scented, perfumed.]

[Footnote 238: These are variations of language of small importance,
which can only be understood in the original language.]

[Footnote 239: It may create a smile to hear that, to prevent danger to
the public, Augustus decreed that no new buildings erected in a public
thoroughfare should exceed in height seventy feet. Trajan reduced it to
sixty.]

[Footnote 240: Virgil is said to have recited before him the whole of the
second, fourth, and sixth books of the Aeneid; and Octavia, being present,
when the poet came to the passage referring to her son, commencing, "Tu
Marcellus eris," was so much affected that she was carried out fainting.]

[Footnote 241: Chap. xix.]

[Footnote 242: Perhaps the point of the reply lay in the temple of
Jupiter Tonans being placed at the approach to the Capitol from the Forum?
See c. xxix. and c. xv., with the note.]

[Footnote 243: If these trees flourished at Rome in the time of Augustus,
the winters there must have been much milder than they now are. There was
one solitary palm standing in the garden of a convent some years ago, but
it was of very stunted growth.]

[Footnote 244: The Republican forms were preserved in some of the larger
towns.]

[Footnote 245: "The Nundinae occurred every ninth day, when a market was
held at Rome, and the people came to it from the country. The practice
was not then introduced amongst the Romans, of dividing their time into
weeks, as we do, in imitation of the Jews. Dio, who flourished under
Severus, says that it first took place a little before his time, and was
derived from the Egyptians."--Thomson. A fact, if well founded, of some
importance.]

[Footnote 246: "The Romans divided their months into calends, nones, and
ides. The first day of the month was the calends of that month; whence
they reckoned backwards, distinguishing the time by the day before the
calends, the second day before the calends, and so on, to the ides of the
preceding month. In eight months of the year, the nones were the fifth
day, and the ides the thirteenth: but in March, May, July, and October,
the nones fell on the seventh, and the ides on the fifteenth. From the
nones they reckoned backwards to the calends, as they also did from the
ides to the nones."--Ib.]

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