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ive term to the names of women, as Claudilla, for Claudia, Plautilla, etc.] [Footnote 361: Priam is said to have had no less than fifty sons and daughters; some of the latter, however, survived him, as Hecuba, Helena, Polyxena, and others.] [Footnote 362: There were oracles at Antium and Tibur. The "Praenestine Lots" are described by Cicero, De Divin. xi. 41.] [Footnote 363: Agrippina, and Nero and Drusus.] [Footnote 364: He is mentioned before in the Life of AUGUSTUS, c. xc.; and also by Horace, Cicero, and Tacitus.] [Footnote 365: Obscure Greek poets, whose writings were either full of fabulous stories, or of an amatory kind.] [Footnote 366: It is suggested that the text should be amended, so that the sentence should read--"A Greek soldier;" for of what use could it have been to examine a man in Greek, and not allow him to give his replies in the same language?] [Footnote 367: So called from Appius Claudius, the Censor, one of Tiberius's ancestors, who constructed it. It took a direction southward of Rome, through Campania to Brundusium, starting from what is the present Porta di San Sebastiano, from which the road to Naples takes its departure.] [Footnote 368: A small town on the coast of Latium, not far from Antium, and the present Nettuno. It was here that Cicero was slain by the satellites of Antony.] [Footnote 369: A town on a promontory of the same dreary coast, between Antium and Terracina, built on a promontory surrounded by the sea and the marsh, still called Circello.] [Footnote 370: Misenum, a promontory to which Aeneas is said to have given its name from one of his followers. (Aen. ii. 234.) It is now called Capo di Miseno, and shelters the harbour of Mola di Gaieta, belonging to Naples. This was one of the stations of the Roman fleet.] [Footnote 371: Tacitus agrees with Suetonius as to the age of Tiberius at the time of his death. Dio states it more precisely, as being seventy-seven years, four months, and nine days.] [Footnote 372: Caius Caligula, who became his successor.] [Footnote 373: Tacitus and Dio add that he was smothered under a heap of heavy clothes.] [Footnote 374: In the temple of the Palatine Apollo. See AUGUSTUS, c. xxix.] [Footnote 375: Atella, a town between Capua and Naples, now called San Arpino, where there was an amphitheatre. The people seemed to have raised the shout in derision, referring, perhaps, to the Atellan fables, me
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