tions with approbation C. Epidius, who wrote some
treatises in which trees are represented as speaking; and the period in
which he flourished, agrees with that assigned to the rhetorician here
named by Suetonius. Plin. xvii. 25.

[914] Isauricus was consul with Julius Caesar II., A.U.C. 705, and again
with L. Antony, A.U.C. 712.

[915] A river in the ancient Campania, now called the Sarno, which
discharges itself into the bay of Naples.

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

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

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

[919] Philipp. xi. 17.

[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.

[921] Novara, a town of the Milanese.

[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.

[923] See AUGUSTUS, c. xxxvi.

[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.

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