The Lives of the Caesars, стр. 146

The Venus of Cos was the work of Praxiteles. ↩

  • The colossal statue of Nero; see Nero, 31.1. ↩

  • See Augustus, 74 and the note. ↩

  • See note on Caligula, 55.2. ↩

  • The Matronalia or feast of married women; see Horace Odes, 3.8.1. ↩

  • A transliterated Greek word, κυβιοσάκτης, meaning “dealer in square pieces (κύβοι) of salt fish.” ↩

  • According to Celsus, 2.1, quadratum is applied to a well-proportioned body, neither slender nor fat. ↩

  • Cf. Macrobius, Saturn 2.1.9, impudica et praetextata verba; Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.10.4, non praetextatis sed puris honestisque verbis. Various explanations of the term are given. It perhaps means words such as boys use; but see Festus, s.v. praetextum sermonem. ↩

  • Plaustra was the urban form of the word for “wagons,” but there was also a plebeian form plostra; see Horace, Horatii Flacci Sermonum 1.6.42 and cf. Claudius, Clodius. The original form was plostra. ↩

  • Iliad 7.213. ↩

  • Menander, Fr. 223.2, Koch. ↩

  • Of Augustus; see Augustus, 100.4. ↩

  • The connection between the stella crinita and the long hair of the Parthian king is obvious; it does not seem accidental that Calvina is connected with calvus, “bald,” though this wordplay seems to have been overlooked. ↩

  • Claudius and Nero reigned thirteen and fourteen years respectively; Vespasian, ten; Titus, two; and Domitian, fifteen. ↩

  • Some building of seven stories; the famous Septizonium on the Palatine was the work of Septimius Severus. ↩

  • Cf. Nero, 33.2 and 3. ↩

  • See Galba, 14.2 and note. ↩

  • By the accession of his father Vespasian. ↩

  • See Augustus, 13.2. ↩

  • See Nero, 15.2, and note a. ↩

  • See note on Vespasian, 9. ↩

  • See Augustus, 43.1. ↩

  • When the water had been let out; cf. Nero, 27.2. ↩

  • By humorously pretending to wrangle with those who favoured other gladiators than the Thracians. ↩

  • Implying that it was his personal loss, which he would make good. ↩

  • To propitiate the gods, who were supposed to inflict such evils upon mankind by way of punishment. ↩

  • The office was seldom taken so seriously. Julius Caesar, for instance, held it during his campaign in Gaul. ↩

  • The weapons of gladiators were regularly examined by the editor, or giver of the games, to see if they were sharp enough; cf. Dio, 68.3, who tells a similar story of the emperor Nerva. ↩

  • Possibly Domitian’s charge was true; cf. Domitian, 2.3. ↩

  • The old homestead at Cutiliae, near Reate; see Vespasian, 24. ↩

  • Various quarters and streets of the city were designated in this way; cf. ad Capita Bubula, Augustus, 5; ad Pirum, Epigrams of Martial 1.117.6. Ad Malum Punicum was a street on the Quirinal hill, probably corresponding with the modern Via delle Quattro Fontane; see Platner, Topography of Rome, p. 485. ↩

  • Cf. Otho, 12.1, at the end. ↩

  • See note on Galba, 1. ↩

  • As son of the emperor. ↩

  • That is, in the provinces. ↩

  • He was but eighteen years old at the time. ↩

  • The usual procedure for a youthful prince; cf. Tiberius, 6.4. ↩

  • See note on Galba, 6.1. The reference is to his consulships before he became emperor; see Domitian, 13.3. ↩

  • That is, twice as large as his brother’s. ↩

  • Titus had the ability to do this; cf. Titus, 3.2, at the end. ↩

  • See Domitian, 9 and 11.1. ↩

  • See note on Vespasian, 9.1. ↩

  • See note on Claudius, 21.2. ↩

  • See note on Claudius, 21.3. ↩

  • As well as in poetry. ↩

  • Established for the worship of the deified Flavian emperors, after the manner of the Augustales; see note on Claudius, 6.2. ↩

  • See Augustus, 71.3. ↩

  • While the spectators remained in their seats; cf. Dio, 67.4. ↩

  • Represented in many cases by tesserae, or tickets; see note on Augustus, 41.2. ↩

  • In 80; it had previously been destroyed by fire in 69; see Vitellius, 15.3. ↩

  • Who finished and dedicated it; it was also called the Forum Transitorium because it connected the Forum of Augustus with the Forum Pacis, as well as the Subura with the Forum Romanum. It occupied a part of the Argiletum. ↩

  • Or Music Hall. ↩

  • See Domitian, 4.2. ↩

  • Tacitus Agricola 39 says that his unjustified triumph over the Germans (and the Dacians) was a laughingstock. ↩

  • See Nero, 16.2. ↩

  • See Augustus, 74. ↩

  • See Caligula, 55.2. ↩

  • See Domitian, 14.2. ↩

  • That is, those which had formerly been restricted to the senatorial order. ↩

  • Where the soldiers deposited their surplus