bits, ib.;
devotion of his soldiers, 426.
Ovation, description of, 85, note.
Ovid, on his life and writings, 177-185.
Oxheads, a street in Rome, 73.

Palatine Hill, 73, and notes; Augustus's house there, 125; enlarged
by Caligula, 266, 267; the Golden House added by Nero, 359, 369;
Tiberius's house, 438.
Pansa. See Hirtius.
Pantheon, built by Agrippa, 93.
Paris, an actor, intrigues with Domitia, 481.
Pearls found in Britain, 31 and note.
Persius, remarks on, 397-399; life of, 538.
Petronia, wife of Vitellius, 431.
Petronius Arbiter, remarks on, 392-395.
Phaedrus, account of, 248.
Pharmacusa, island of, 4.
Pharsalia, battle of, 23; speech of J. Caesar after, 21; his call to
the troops at, 45; Lucan's poem on, 396.
Philippi, battle of, 77, 78; Augustus's escape at, 136.
Philosophers, decrees against at Rome, 524.
Pincian hill, 379, and note.
Piso, Cneius, conspires with Crassus, 7.
----, prefect of Syria, 251; suspected of poisoning Germanicus, 252;
his conspiracy, 366.
Plancus, L. Munatius, the orator, 529, and note.
Pliny, the elder, remarks on, 475; his works, ib.-478; his life, 545.
-----, the younger, 546, note.
Polyhistor, Alexander, the historian, 520, and note.
Pomegranate, street so called, 479, and note.
Pompeius Sextus, wars of Augustus with, 76.
Pompeia, wife of Julius Caesar, 5.
Pompey, Cn., reconciled with Crassus, 12; marries Julia, 14; supports her
father J. Caesar, 15; meets him at Lucca, 16; sole consul, 17; offered
Octavia in marriage, 18; his opinion of Julius Caesar, 20; flies to
Brundusium, 23; defeated at Pharsalia, ib.; his statues restored, 45;
his senate-house, 49, 50, and note.
Pontine Marshes, drainage of, 30.
Poppaea, Sabina, Nero's mistress, 360; he kills her, 365; Otho marries
her pro forma, 417, 418.
Porticos; of Lucius and Caius, 93; of Octavia, ib., and note; of the
Argonauts, 94.
Posts established, 110.
Pretorian guards of Tiberius, 221, 229; elect Claudius, 302; attend
him to the senate, 303; salute Nero, 342; mutiny against Galba,
411; dispatch him, 413; disbanded by Vitellius, 432; commanded by
Vitus, 468.
Pretorian camp, 265, 302; its position, 376.
Probus, M. Valerius, his mode of teaching, 525.
Procurators, their office, 304, note.
Propertius, on his life and works, 188.
Psylli, the, 81,