quamquam abolito, sed et Juliae
Augustae, quod Tiberius suppresserat, cum fide, ac sine calumnia
repraesentate persolvit." CALIG. c. xvi.]

[Footnote 656: A.U.C. 786.]

[Footnote 657: Caius Caesar Caligula. He gave the command of the legions
in Germany to Galba.]

[Footnote 658: "Scuto moderatus;" another reading in the parallel passage
of Tacitus is scuto immodice oneratus, burdened with the heavy weight of a
shield.]

[Footnote 659: It would appear that Galba was to have accompanied
Claudius in his expedition to Britain; which is related before, CLAUDIUS,
c. xvii.]

[Footnote 660: It has been remarked before, that the Cantabria of the
ancients is now the province of Biscay.]

[Footnote 661: Now Carthagena.]

[Footnote 662: A.U.C. 821.]

[Footnote 663: Now Corunna.]

[Footnote 664: Tortosa, on the Ebro.]

[Footnote 665: "Simus," literally, fiat-nosed, was a cant word, used for
a clown; Galba being jeered for his rusticity, in consequence of his long
retirement. See c. viii. Indeed, they called Spain his farm.]

[Footnote 666: The command of the pretorian guards.]

[Footnote 667: In the Forum. See AUGUSTUS, c. lvii.]

[Footnote 668: II. v. 254.]

[Footnote 669: A.U.C. 822.]

[Footnote 670: On the esplanade, where the standards, objects of
religious reverence, were planted. See note to c. vi. Criminals were
usually executed outside the Vallum, and in the presence of a centurion.]

[Footnote 671: Probably one of the two mentioned in CLAUDIUS, c. xiii.]

[Footnote 672: A.U.C. 784 or 785.]

[Footnote 673: "Distento sago impositum in sublime jactare."]

[Footnote 674: See NERO, c. xxxv.]

[Footnote 675: The Milliare Aureum was a pillar of stone set up at the
top of the Forum, from which all the great military roads throughout Italy
started, the distances to the principal towns being marked upon it. Dio
(lib. liv.) says that it was erected by the emperor Augustus, when he was
curator of the roads.]

[Footnote 676: Haruspex, Auspex, or Augur, denoted any person who
foretold futurity, or interpreted omens. There was at Rome a body of
priests, or college, under this title, whose office it was to foretell
future events, chiefly from the flight, chirping, or feeding of birds, and
from other appearances. They were of the greatest authority in the Roman
state; for nothing of importance was done in public affairs, either at
home or abroad, in peace or war, without consulting