ntioned in c. xiv.; and in their fury they proposed that his body should
only be grilled, as those of malefactors were, instead of being reduced to
ashes.]

[Footnote 376: Tacit. Annal. lib. ii.]

[Footnote 377: A.U.C. 757.]

[Footnote 378: A.U.C. 765.]

[Footnote 379: A.U.C. 770.]

[Footnote 380: A.U.C. 767.]

[Footnote 381: A.U.C. 771.]

[Footnote 382: This opinion, like some others which occur in Suetonius,
may justly be considered as a vulgar error; and if the heart was found
entire, it must have been owing to the weakness of the fire, rather than
to any quality communicated to the organ, of resisting the power of that
element.]

[Footnote 383: The magnificent title of King of Kings has been assumed,
at different times, by various potentates. The person to whom it is here
applied, is the king of Parthia. Under the kings of Persia, and even
under the Syro-Macedonian kings, this country was of no consideration, and
reckoned a part of Hyrcania. But upon the revolt of the East from the
Syro-Macedonians, at the instigation of Arsaces, the Parthians are said to
have conquered eighteen kingdoms.]

[Footnote 384: A.U.C. 765.]

[Footnote 385: It does not appear that Gaetulicus wrote any historical
work, but Martial, Pliny, and others, describe him as a respectable poet.]

[Footnote 386: Supra Confluentes. The German tribe here mentioned
occupied the country between the Rhine and the Meuse, and gave their name
to Treves (Treviri), its chief town. Coblentz had its ancient name of
Confluentes, from its standing at the junction of the two rivers. The
exact site of the village in which Caligula was born is not known.
Cluverius conjectures that it may be Capelle.]

[Footnote 387: Chap. vii.]

[Footnote 388: The name was derived from Caliga, a kind of boot, studded
with nails, used by the common soldiers in the Roman army.]

[Footnote 389: According to Tacitus, who gives an interesting account of
these occurrences, Treves was the place of refuge to which the young Caius
was conveyed.--Annal. i.]

[Footnote 390: In c. liv. of TIBERIUS, we have seen that his brothers
Drusus and Nero fell a sacrifice to these artifices.]

[Footnote 391: Tiberius, who was the adopted father of Germanicus.]

[Footnote 392: Natriceus, a water-snake, so called from nato, to swim.
The allusion is probably to Caligula's being reared in the island of
Capri.]

[Footnote 393: As Phaeton is said to have set the wor