she
was gathering flowers in the plains of Enna, in Sicily. The victims
offered to the infernal gods were black: they were killed with their faces
bent downwards; the knife was applied from below, and the blood was poured
into a ditch.]

[Footnote 683: A town between Mantua and Cremona.]

[Footnote 684: The temple of Castor. It stood about twelve miles from
Cremona. Tacitus gives some details of this action. Hist. ii. 243.]

[Footnote 685: Both Greek and Latin authors differ in the mode of
spelling the name of this place, the first syllable being written Beb,
Bet, and Bret. It is now a small village called Labino, between Cremona
and Verona.]

[Footnote 686: Lenis was a name of similar signification with that of
Tranquillus, borne by his son, the author of the present work. We find
from Tacitus, that there was, among Otho's generals, in this battle,
another person of the name of Suetonius, whose cognomen was Paulinus; with
whom our author's father must not be confounded. Lenis was only a tribune
of the thirteenth legion, the position of which in the battle is mentioned
by Tacitus, Hist. xi. 24, and was angusticlavius, wearing only the narrow
stripe, as not being of the senatorial order; while Paulinus was a
general, commanding a legion, at least, and a consular man; having filled
that Office A.U.C. 818. There seems no doubt that Suetonius Paulinus was
the same general who distinguished himself by his successes and cruelties
in Britain. NERO, c. xviii., and note.]

Not to extend the present note, we may shortly refer to our author's
having already mentioned his grandfather (CALIGULA, c. xix.); besides
other sources from which he drew his information. He tells us that he
himself was then a boy. We have now arrived at the times in which his
father bore a part. Such incidental notices, dropped by historical
writers, have a certain value in enabling us to form a judgment on the
genuineness of their narratives as to contemporaneous, or recent, events.]

[Footnote 687: A.U.C. 823.]

[Footnote 688: Jupiter, to prevent the discovery of his amour with Io,
the daughter of the river Inachus, transformed her into a heifer, in which
metamorphosis she was placed by Juno under the watchful inspection of
Argus; but flying into Egypt, and her keeper being killed by Mercury, she
recovered her human shape, and was married to Osiris. Her husband
afterwards became a god of the Egyptians, and she a goddess, under the