ii. 4.]

[Footnote 723: The inscription was in Greek, kalos telothaesanti.]

[Footnote 724: In the ancient Umbria, afterwards the duchy of Spoleto;
its modern name being Norcia.]

[Footnote 725: Gaul beyond, north of the Po, now Lombardy.]

[Footnote 726: We find the annual migration of labourers in husbandry a
very common practice in ancient as well as in modern times. At present,
several thousand industrious labourers cross over every summer from the
duchies of Parma and Modena, bordering on the district mentioned by
Suetonius, to the island of Corsica; returning to the continent when the
harvest is got in.]

[Footnote 727: A.U.C. 762, A.D. 10.]

[Footnote 728: Cosa was a place in the Volscian territory; of which
Anagni was probably the chief town. It lies about forty miles to the
north-east of Rome.]

[Footnote 729: Caligula.]

[Footnote 730: These games were extraordinary, as being out of the usual
course of those given by praetors.]

[Footnote 731: "Revocavit in contubernium." From the difference of our
habits, there is no word in the English language which exactly conveys the
meaning of contubernium; a word which, in a military sense, the Romans
applied to the intimate fellowship between comrades in war who messed
together, and lived in close fellowship in the same tent. Thence they
transferred it to a union with one woman who was in a higher position than
a concubine, but, for some reason, could not acquire the legal rights of a
wife, as in the case of slaves of either sex. A man of rank, also, could
not marry a slave or a freedwoman, however much he might be attached to
her.]

[Footnote 732: Nearly the same phrases are applied by Suetonius to
Drusilla, see CALIGULA, c. xxiv., and to Marcella, the concubine of
Commodus, by Herodian, I. xvi. 9., where he says that she had all the
honours of an empress, except that the incense was not offered to her.
These connections resembled the left-hand marriages of the German
princes.]

[Footnote 733: This expedition to Britain has been mentioned before,
CLAUDIUS, c. xvii. and note; and see ib. xxiv.]

Valerius Flaccus, i. 8, and Silius Italicus, iii. 598, celebrate the
triumphs of Vespasian in Britain. In representing him, however, as
carrying his arms among the Caledonian tribes, their flattery transferred
to the emperor the glory of the victories gained by his lieutenant,
Agricola. Vespasian's own conquests, while he served in Britain, were