emoration of the
time when the sacred shield was believed to have fallen from heaven, in
the reign of Numa. After their procession, they had a splendid
entertainment, the luxury of which was proverbial.]

[Footnote 541: Scaliger and Casauhon give Teleggenius as the reading of
the best manuscripts. Whoever he was, his name seems to have been a
bye-word for a notorious fool.]

[Footnote 542: Titus Livius, the prince of Roman historians, died in the
fourth year of the reign of Tiberius, A.U.C. 771; at which time Claudius
was about twenty-seven years old, having been born A.U.C. 744.]

[Footnote 543: Asinius Gallus was the son of Asinius Pollio, the famous
orator, and had written a hook comparing his father with Cicero, and
giving the former the preference.]

[Footnote 544: Quintilian informs us, that one of the three new letters
the emperor Claudius attempted to introduce, was the Aeolic digamma, which
had the same force as v consonant. Priscian calls another anti-signs, and
says that the character proposed was two Greek sigmas, back to back, and
that it was substituted for the Greek ps. The other letter is not known,
and all three soon fell into disuse.]

[Footnote 545: Caesar by birth, not by adoption, as the preceding
emperors had been, and as Nero would be, if he succeeded.]

[Footnote 546: Tacitus informs us, that the poison was prepared by
Locusta, of whom we shall hear, NERO, c. xxxiii. etc.]

[Footnote 547: A.U.C. 806; A.D. 54.]

[Footnote 548: A.U.C. 593, 632, 658, 660, 700, 722, 785.]

[Footnote 549: A.U.C. 632.]

[Footnote 550: A.U.C. 639, 663.]

[Footnote 551: For the distinction between the praenomen and cognomen,
see note, p. 192.]

[Footnote 552: A.U.C. 632.]

[Footnote 553: The Allobroges were a tribe of Gauls, inhabiting Dauphiny
and Savoy; the Arverni have left their name in Auvergne.]

[Footnote 554: A.U.C. 695.]

[Footnote 555: A.U.C. 700.]

[Footnote 556: A.U.C. 711.]

[Footnote 557: A.U.C. 723.]

[Footnote 558: Nais seems to have been a freedwoman, who had been allowed
to adopt the family name of her master.]

[Footnote 559: By one of those fictions of law, which have abounded in
all systems of jurisprudence, a nominal alienation of his property was
made in the testator's life-time.]

[Footnote 560: The suggestion offered (note, p. 123), that the
Argentarii, like the goldsmiths of the middle ages, combined the business
of bankers, or money-changers, wi