emoir of Pliny is inserted in all the
editions of Suetonius, it was unquestionably not written by him. The
author, whoever he was, has confounded the two Plinys, the uncle and
nephew, into which error Suetonius could not have fallen, as he lived on
intimate terms with the younger Pliny; nor can it be supposed that he
would have composed the memoir of his illustrious friend in so cursory a
manner. Scaliger and other learned men consider that the life of Pliny,
attributed to Suetonius, was composed more than four centuries after that
historian's death.]

[Footnote 985: See JULIUS, c. xxviii. Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus
(the younger Pliny) was born at Como, A.U.C. 814; A.D. 62. His father's
name was Lucius Caecilius, also of Como, who married Plinia, the sister of
Caius Plinius Secundus, supposed to have been a native of Verona, the
author of the Natural History, and by this marriage the uncle of Pliny the
Younger. It was the nephew who enjoyed the confidence of the emperors
Nerva and Trajan, and was the author of the celebrated Letters.]

[Footnote 986: The first eruption of Mount Vesuvius occurred A.U.C. 831,
A.D. 79. See TITUS, c. viii. The younger Pliny was with his uncle at
Misenum at the time, and has left an account of his disastrous enterprise
in one of his letters, Epist. vi. xvi.]

[Footnote 987: For further accounts of the elder Pliny, see the Epistles
of his nephew, B. iii. 5; vi. 16. 20; and Dr. Thomson's remarks before,
pp. 475-478.]

INDEX.

Acilius, C., his heroic conduct in a sea-fight, 42.
Acte, a concubine of Nero, 357.
Actium, battle of, 81, 82.
Agrippa, M., his naval victory, 80; presented with a banner, 88;
his buildings, 93; aqueducts, 104; grandson of Augustus, 118; his
character, ib. 119; adopted, 203; banished, 204; murdered, 208.
Agrippina, daughter of M. Agrippa and Livia, 254; marries Germanicus,
118; banished by Tiberius, 225; birth of Caligula, 255; daughter of
Germanicus, Claudius marries her, 320, 327; suspected of poisoning
him, 331; her character, 335.
Alban Mount, 276, 298, and note; festival on, 482.
Albula, the warm springs at, 131.
Albutius, Silus, an orator, 528.
Alexander the Great, J. Caesar's model, 5; his sarcophagus opened for
Augustus, 82.
Alexandria, museum at, 330; library at, 496, note; the key of Egypt, 449;
Vespasian's miracles there, 450, and note.
Amphitheatres; of Stati