The portico of the temple of Concord is still standing on
the side of the Forum nearest the Capitol. It consists of six Ionic
columns, each of one piece, and of a light-coloured granite, with bases
and capitals of white marble, and two columns at the angles. The temple
of Castor and Pollux has been mentioned before: JUL. c. x.]

[Footnote 324: A.U.C. 766.]

[Footnote 325: A.U.C. 767.]

[Footnote 326: Augustus interlards this epistle, and that subsequently
quoted, with Greek sentences and phrases, of which this is one. It is so
obscure, that commentators suppose that it is a mis-reading, but are not
agreed on its drift.]

[Footnote 327: A verse in which the word in italics is substituted for
cunctando, quoted from Ennius, who applied it to Fabius Maximus.]

[Footnote 328: Iliad, B. x. Diomede is speaking of Ulysses, where he
asks that he may accompany him as a spy into the Trojan camp.]

[Footnote 329: Tiberius had adopted Germanicus. See before, c. xv. See
also CALIGULA, c. i.]

[Footnote 330: In this he imitated Augustus. See c. liii. of his life.]

[Footnote 331: Si hanc fenestram aperueritis, if you open that window,
equivalent to our phrase, "if you open the door."]

[Footnote 332: Princeps, principatus, are the terms generally used by
Suetonius to describe the supreme authority vested in the Caesars, as
before at the beginning of chap. xxiv., distinguished from any terms which
conveyed of kingly power, the forms of the republic, as we have lately
seen, still subsisting.]

[Footnote 333: Strenas; the French etrennes.]

[Footnote 334: "Tiberius pulled down the temple of Isis, caused her image
to be thrown into the Tiber, and crucified her priests."--Joseph. Ant.
Jud. xviii. 4.]

[Footnote 335: Similia sectantes. We are strongly inclined to think that
the words might be rendered "similar sects," conveying an allusion to the
small and obscure body of Christians, who were at this period generally
confounded with the Jews, and supposed only to differ from them in some
peculiarities of their institutions, which Roman historians and
magistrates did not trouble themselves to distinguish. How little even
the well-informed Suetonius knew of the real facts, we shall find in the
only direct notice of the Christians contained in his works (CLAUDIUS c.
xxv., NERO, c. xvi.); but that little confirms our conjecture. All the
commentators, however, give the passage the turn retained in the text.