soldier, with GERMANIA DEVICTA.]

[Footnote 800: VESPASIAN, c. xii; TITUS, c. vi.]

[Footnote 801: Such excavations had been made by Julius and by Augustus
(AUG. xliii.), and the seats for the spectators fitted up with timber in a
rude way. That was on the other side of the Tiber. The Naumachia of
Domitian occupies the site of the present Piazza d'Espagna, and was larger
and more ornamented.]

[Footnote 802: A.U.C. 841. See AUGUSTUS, c. xxxi.]

[Footnote 803: This feast was held in December. Plutarch informs us that
it was instituted in commemoration of the seventh hill being included in
the city bounds.]

[Footnote 804: The Capitol had been burnt, for the third time, in the
great fire mentioned TITUS, c. viii. The first fire happened in the
Marian war, after which it was rebuilt by Pompey, the second in the reign
of Vitellius.]

[Footnote 805: This forum, commenced by Domitian and completed by Nerva,
adjoined the Roman Forum and that of Augustus, mentioned in c. xxix. of
his life. From its communicating with the two others, it was called
Transitorium. Part of the wall which bounded it still remains, of a great
height, and 144 paces long. It is composed of square masses of freestone,
very large, and without any cement; and it is not carried in a straight
line, but makes three or four angles, as if some buildings had interfered
with its direction.]

[Footnote 806: The residence of the Flavian family was converted into a
temple. See c. i. of the present book.]

[Footnote 807: The Stadium was in the shape of a circus, and used for
races both of men and horses.]

[Footnote 808: The Odeum was a building intended for musical
performances. There were four of them at Rome.]

[Footnote 809: See before, c. iv.]

[Footnote 810: See VESPASIAN, c. xiv.]

[Footnote 811: See NERD, c. xvi.]

[Footnote 812: This absurd edict was speedily revoked. See afterwards c.
xiv.]

[Footnote 813: This was an ancient law levelled against adultery and
other pollutions, named from its author Caius Scatinius, a tribune of the
people. There was a Julian law, with the same object. See AUGUSTUS, c.
xxxiv.]

[Footnote 814: Geor. xi. 537.]

[Footnote 815: See Livy, xxi. 63, and Cicero against Verres, v. 18.]

[Footnote 816: See VESPASIAN, c. iii.]

[Footnote 817: Cant names for gladiators.]

[Footnote 818: The faction which favoured the "Thrax" party.]

[Footnote 819: DOMITIAN, c. i.]

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