e transit to Britain.]

[Footnote 452: The denarius was worth at this time about seven pence or
eight pence of our money.]

[Footnote 453: Probably to Anticyra. See before, c. xxix. note]

[Footnote 454: The Cimbri were German tribes on the Elbe, who invaded
Italy A.U.C. 640, and were defeated by Metellus.]

[Footnote 455: The Senones were a tribe of Cis-Alpine Gauls, settled in
Umbria, who sacked and pillaged Rome A.U.C. 363.]

[Footnote 456: By the transmarine provinces, Asia, Egypt, etc., are
meant; so that we find Caligula entertaining visions of an eastern empire,
and removing the seat of government, which were long afterwards realized
in the time of Constantine.]

[Footnote 457: See AUGUSTUS, c. xviii.]

[Footnote 458: About midnight, the watches being divided into four.]

[Footnote 459: Scabella: commentators are undecided as to the nature of
this instrument. Some of them suppose it to have been either a sort of
cymbal or castanet, but Pitiscus in his note gives a figure of an ancient
statue preserved at Florence, in which a dancer is represented with
cymbals in his hands, and a kind of wind instrument attached to the toe of
his left foot, by which it is worked by pressure, something in the way of
an accordion.]

[Footnote 460: The port of Rome.]

[Footnote 461: The Romans, in their passionate devotion to the amusements
of the circus and the theatre, were divided into factions, who had their
favourites among the racers and actors, the former being distinguished by
the colour of the party to which they belonged. See before, c. xviii.,
and TIBERIUS, c. xxxvii.]

[Footnote 462: In the slang of the turf, the name of Caligula's
celebrated horse might, perhaps, be translated "Go a-head."]

[Footnote 463: Josephus, who supplies us with minute details of the
assassination of Caligula, says that he made no outcry, either disdaining
it, or because an alarm would have been useless; but that he attempted to
make his escape through a corridor which led to some baths behind the
palace. Among the ruins on the Palatine hill, these baths still attract
attention, some of the frescos being in good preservation. See the
account in Josephus, xix. 1, 2.]

[Footnote 464: The Lamian was an ancient family, the founders of Formiae.
They had gardens on the Esquiline mount.]

[Footnote 465: A.U.C. 714.]

[Footnote 466: Pliny describes Drusus as having in this voyage
circumnavigated Germany, and reached t