was banished to Ponza, for having
become a Christian. Clemens Romanus, the second bishop of Rome, is said
to have been of this family.]

[Footnote 837: A.U.C. 849.]

[Footnote 838: See c. v.]

[Footnote 839: The famous library of Alexandria collected by Ptolemy
Philadelphus had been burnt by accident in the wars. But we find from
this passage in Suetonius that part of it was saved, or fresh collections
had been made. Seneca (de Tranquill. c. ix. 7) informs us that forty
thousand volumes were burnt; and Gellius states that in his time the
number of volumes amounted to nearly seventy thousand.]

[Footnote 840: This favourite apple, mentioned by Columella and Pliny,
took its name from C. Matius, a Roman knight, and friend of Augustus, who
first introduced it. Pliny tells us that Matius was also the first who
brought into vogue the practice of clipping groves.]

[Footnote 841: Julia, the daughter of Titus.]

[Footnote 842: It will be understood that the terms Grammar and
Grammarian have here a more extended sense than that which they convey in
modern use. See the beginning of c. iv.]

[Footnote 843: Suetonius's account of the rude and unlettered state of
society in the early times of Rome, is consistent with what we might
infer, and with the accounts which have come down to us, of a community
composed of the most daring and adventurous spirits thrown off by the
neighbouring tribes, and whose sole occupations were rapine and war. But
Cicero discovers the germs of mental cultivation among the Romans long
before the period assigned to it by Suetonius, tracing them to the
teaching of Pythagoras, who visited the Greek cities on the coast of Italy
in the reign of Tarquinius Superbus.--Tusc. Quaest. iv. 1.]

[Footnote 844: Livius, whose cognomen Andronicus, intimates his
extraction, was born of Greek parents. He began to teach at Rome in the
consulship of Claudius Cento, the son of Appius Caecus, and Sempronius
Tuditanus, A.U.C. 514. He must not be confounded with Titus Livius, the
historian, who flourished in the Augustan age.]

[Footnote 845: Ennius was a native of Calabria. He was born the year
after the consulship mentioned in the preceding note, and lived to see at
least his seventy-sixth year, for Gellius informs us that at that age he
wrote the twelfth book of his Annals.]

[Footnote 846: Porcius Cato found Ennius in Sardinia, when he conquered
that island during his praetorship. He learnt Greek