discharges itself into the bay of Naples.]

[Footnote 916: Epidius attributes the injury received by his eyes to the
corrupt habits he contracted in the society of M. Antony.]

[Footnote 917: The direct allusion is to the "style" or probe used by
surgeons in opening tumours.]

[Footnote 918: Mark Antony was consul with Julius Caesar, A.U.C. 709.
See before, JULIUS, c. lxxix.]

[Footnote 919: Philipp. xi. 17.]

[Footnote 920: Leontium, now called Lentini, was a town in Sicily, the
foundation of which is related by Thucydides, vi. p. 412. Polybius
describes the Leontine fields as the most fertile part of Sicily. Polyb.
vii. 1. And see Cicero, contra Verrem, iii. 46, 47.]

[Footnote 921: Novara, a town of the Milanese.]

[Footnote 922: St. Jerom in Chron. Euseb. describes Lucius Munatius
Plancus as the disciple of Cicero, and a celebrated orator. He founded
Lyons during the time he governed that part of the Roman provinces in
Gaul.]

[Footnote 923: See AUGUSTUS, c. xxxvi.]

[Footnote 924: He meant to speak of Cisalpine Gaul, which, though
geographically a part of Italy, did not till a late period enjoy the
privileges of the other territories united to Rome, and was administered
by a praetor under the forms of a dependent province. It was admitted to
equal rights by the triumvirs, after the death of Julius Caesar. Albutius
intimated that those rights were now in danger.]

[Footnote 925: Lucius Fenestella, an historical writer, is mentioned by
Lactantius, Seneca, and Pliny, who says, that he died towards the close of
the reign of Tiberius.]

[Footnote 926: The second Punic war ended A.U.C. 552, and the third began
A.U.C. 605. Terence was probably born about 560.]

[Footnote 927: Carthage was laid in ruins A.U.C. 606 or 607, six hundred
and sixty seven years after its foundation.]

[Footnote 928: These entertainments were given by the aediles M. Fulvius
Nobilior and M. Acilius Glabrio, A.U.C. 587.]

[Footnote 929: St. Jerom also states that Terence read the "Andria" to
Caecilius who was a comic poet at Rome; but it is clearly an anachronism,
as he died two years before this period. It is proposed, therefore, to
amend the text by substituting Acilius, the aedile; a correction
recommended by all the circumstances, and approved by Pitiscus and
Ernesti.]

[Footnote 930: The "Hecyra," The Mother-in-law, is one of Terence's
plays.]

[Footnote 931: The "Eunuch" was not brought out till fi