name of Isis. She was represented with a mural crown on her head, a
cornucopia in one hand, and a sistrum (a musical instrument) in the
other.]

[Footnote 689: Faunus was supposed to be the third king who reigned over
the original inhabitants of the central parts of Italy, Saturn being the
first. Virgil makes his wife's name Marica--

Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum
Laurente Marica Accipimus.--Aen. vii. 47.

Her name may have been changed after her deification; but we have no other
accounts than those preserved by Suetonius, of several of the traditions
handed down from the fabulous ages respecting the Vitellian family.]

[Footnote 690: The Aequicolae were probably a tribe inhabiting the
heights in the neighbourhood of Rome. Virgil describes them, Aen. vii.
746.]

[Footnote 691: Nuceria, now Nocera, is a town near Mantua; but Livy, in
treating of the war with the Samnites, always speaks of Luceria, which
Strabo calls a town in Apulia.]

[Footnote 692: Cassius Severus is mentioned before, in AUGUSTUS, c. lvi.;
CALIGULA, c. xvi., etc.]

[Footnote 693: A.U.C. 785.]

[Footnote 694: A.U.C. 787.]

[Footnote 695: He is frequently commended by Josephus for his kindness to
the Jews. See, particularly, Antiq. VI. xviii.]

[Footnote 696: A.U.C. 796, 800.]

[Footnote 697: A.U.C. 801.]

[Footnote 698: A.U.C. 797. See CLAUDIUS, c. xvii.]

[Footnote 699: A.U.C. 801.]

[Footnote 700: A.U.C. 767; being the year after the death of the emperor
Augustus; from whence it appears that Vitellius was seventeen years older
than Otho, both being at an advanced age when they were raised to the
imperial dignity.]

[Footnote 701: He was sent to Germany by Galba.]

[Footnote 702: See TIBERIUS, c. xliii.]

[Footnote 703: Julius Caesar, also, was said to have exchanged brass for
gold in the Capitol, Junius, c. liv. The tin which we here find in use at
Rome, was probably brought from the Cassiterides, now the Scilly islands.
whence it had been an article of commerce by the Phoenicians and
Carthaginians from a very early period.]

[Footnote 704: A.U.C. 821.]

[Footnote 705: A.U.C. 822.]

[Footnote 706: Vienne was a very ancient city of the province of
Narbonne, famous in ecclesiastical history as the early seat of a
bishopric in Gaul.]

[Footnote 707: See OTHO, c. ix.]

[Footnote 708: See OTHO, c. ix.]

[Footnote 709: Agrippina, the wife of Nero and mother of Germanicus,
founded a colony o