[357] The verses were probably anonymous.

[358] Oderint dum probent: Caligula used a similar expression; Oderint
dum metuant.

[359] A.U.C. 778. Tacit. Annal. iv. The historian's name was A.
Cremutius Cordo. Dio has preserved the passage, xlvii. p. 619. Brutus
had already called Cassius "The last of the Romans," in his lamentation
over his dead body.

[360] She was the sister of Germanicus, and Tacitus calls her Livia; but
Suetonius is in the habit of giving a fondling or diminutive term to the
names of women, as Claudilla, for Claudia, Plautilla, etc.

[361] Priam is said to have had no less than fifty sons and daughters;
some of the latter, however, survived him, as Hecuba, Helena, Polyxena,
and others.

[362] There were oracles at Antium and Tibur. The "Praenestine Lots"
are described by Cicero, De Divin. xi. 41.

[363] Agrippina, and Nero and Drusus.

[364] He is mentioned before in the Life of AUGUSTUS, c. xc.; and also
by Horace, Cicero, and Tacitus.

[365] Obscure Greek poets, whose writings were either full of fabulous
stories, or of an amatory kind.

[366] It is suggested that the text should be amended, so that the