alludes to their passion for public spectacles, particularly in the well-
known lines--

--------Atque duas tantum res serrius optat,
Panem et Circenses. Sat. x. 80.

[337] The Cottian Alps derived their name from this king. They include
that part of the chain which divides Dauphiny from Piedmont, and are
crossed by the pass of the Mont Cenis.

[338] Antium, mentioned before, (AUG. c. lviii.) once a flourishing city
of the Volscians, standing on the sea-coast, about thirty-eight miles
from Rome, was a favourite resort of the emperors and persons of wealth.
The Apollo Belvidere was found among the ruins of its temples and other
edifices.

[339] A.U.C. 779.

[340] Terracina, standing at the southern extremity of the Pontine
Marshes, on the shore of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by high
calcareous cliffs, in which there are caverns, affording, as Strabo
informs us, cool retreats, attached to the Roman villas built round.

[341] Augustus died at Nola, a city in Campania. See c. lviii. of his
life.

[342] Fidenae stood in a bend of the Tiber, near its junction with the
Anio. There are few traces of it remaining.

[343] That any man could drink an amphora of wine at a draught, is