'pisciculos'
vocabat, institueret, ut natanti sibi inter femina versarentur, ac
luderent: lingua morsuque sensim appetentes; atque etiam quasi infantes
firmiores, necdum tamen lacte depulsos, inguini ceu papillae admoveret:
pronior sane ad id genus libidinis, et natura et aetate."]

[Footnote 348: "Foeminarum capitibus solitus illudere."]

[Footnote 349: "Obscoenitate oris hirsuto atque olido."]

[Footnote 350: "Hircum vetulum capreis naturam ligurire"]

[Footnote 351: The Temple of Vesta, like that dedicated to the same
goddess at Tivoli, is round. There was probably one on the same site, and
in the same circular form, erected by Numa Pompilius; the present edifice
is far too elegant for that age, but there is no record of its erection,
but it is known to have been repaired by Vespasian or Domitian after being
injured by Nero's fire. Its situation, near the Tiber, exposed it to
floods, from which we find it suffered, from Horace's lines--

"Vidimus flavum Tiberim, retortis
Littore Etrusco violenter undis,
Ire dejectum monumenta Regis,
Templaque Vestae."--Ode, lib. i. 2. 15.

This beautiful temple is still in good preservation. It is surrounded by
twenty columns of white marble, and the wall of the cell, or interior
(which is very small, its diameter being only the length of one of the
columns), is also built of blocks of the same material, so nicely joined,
that it seems to be formed of one solid mass.]

[Footnote 352: Antlia; a machine for drawing up water in a series of
connected buckets, which was worked by the feet, nisu pedum.]

[Footnote 353: The elder Livia was banished to this island by Augustus.
See c. lxv. of his life.]

[Footnote 354: An island in the Archipelago.]

[Footnote 355: This Theodore is noticed by Quintilian, Instit. iii. 1.
Gadara was in Syria.]

[Footnote 356: It mattered not that the head substituted was Tiberius's
own.]

[Footnote 357: The verses were probably anonymous.]

[Footnote 358: Oderint dum probent: Caligula used a similar expression;
Oderint dum metuant.]

[Footnote 359: A.U.C. 778. Tacit. Annal. iv. The historian's name was
A. Cremutius Cordo. Dio has preserved the passage, xlvii. p. 619. Brutus
had already called Cassius "The last of the Romans," in his lamentation
over his dead body.]

[Footnote 360: She was the sister of Germanicus, and Tacitus calls her
Livia; but Suetonius is in the habit of giving a fondling or diminut