prodigy, therefore, did not concern Vespasian. As to the tomb of
the Julian family, see AUGUSTUS, c. ci.]

[Footnote 772: Alluding to the apotheosis of the emperors.]

[Footnote 773: Cutiliae was a small lake, about three-quarters of a mile
from Reate, now called Lago di Contigliano. It was very deep, and being
fed from springs in the neighbouring hills, the water was exceedingly
clear and cold, so that it was frequented by invalids, who required
invigorating. Vespasian's paternal estates lay in the neighbourhood of
Reate. See chap i.]

[Footnote 774: A.U.C. 832.]

[Footnote 775: Each dynasty lasted twenty-eight years. Claudius and Nero
both reigning fourteen; and, of the Flavius family, Vespasian reigned ten,
Titus three, and Domitian fifteen.]

[Footnote 776: Caligula. Titus was born A.U.C. 794; about A.D. 49.]

[Footnote 777: The Septizonium was a circular building of seven stories.
The remains of that of Septimus Severus, which stood on the side of the
Palatine Hill, remained till the time of Pope Sixtus V., who removed it,
and employed thirty-eight of its columns in ornamenting the church of St.
Peter. It does not appear whether the Septizonium here mentioned as
existing in the time of Titus, stood on the same spot.]

[Footnote 778: Britannicus, the son of Claudius and Messalina.]

[Footnote 779: A.U.C. 820.]

[Footnote 780: Jerusalem was taken, sacked, and burnt, by Titus, after a
two years' siege, on the 8th September, A.U.C. 821, A.D. 69; it being the
Sabbath. It was in the second year of the reign of Vespasian, when the
emperor was sixty years old, and Titus himself, as he informs us, thirty.
For particulars of the siege, see Josephus, De Bell. Jud. vi. and vii.;
Hegesippus, Excid. Hierosol. v.; Dio, lxvi.; Tacitus, Hist. v.; Orosius,
vii. 9.]

[Footnote 781: For the sense in which Titus was saluted with the title of
Emperor by the troops, see JULIUS CAESAR, c. lxxvi.]

[Footnote 782: The joint triumph of Vespasian and Titus, which was
celebrated A.U.C. 824, is fully described by Josephus, De Bell. Jud. vii.
24. It is commemorated by the triumphal monument called the Arch of
Titus, erected by the senate and people of Rome after his death, and still
standing at the foot of the Palatine Hill, on the road leading from the
Colosseum to the Forum, and is one of the most beautiful as well as the
most interesting models of Roman art. It consists of four stories of the
three orders of a