Endnotes

1. Household servants. ↩

2. Nero’s name was originally L. Domitius Ahenobarbus. ↩

3. Here he is. ↩

4. The slayer of Caligula. ↩

5. Ιησούς Χριστός, Θεού Υιός, Σωτήρ (Iesous Christos, Theou Uios, Soter). ↩

6. ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthus), the Greek word for “fish.” ↩

7. Aedon turned into a nightingale. ↩

8. A man who labors with chained feet. ↩

9. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” ↩

10. “I came, I saw, I fled.” ↩

11. The matron who accompanies the bride and explains to her the duties of a wife. ↩

12. The inhabitants of Italy were freed from military service by Augustus, in consequence of which the so-called cohors Italica, stationed generally in Asia, was composed of volunteers. The pretorian guards, in so far as they were not composed of foreigners, were made up of volunteers. ↩

13. Yellow hair. ↩

14. In the time of the Caesars a legion was always 12,000 men. ↩

15. Of one husband. ↩

16. Buffoon. ↩

17. Actor. ↩

18. A robe with train, worn especially by tragic actors. ↩

19. The lowest part of the prison, lying entirely underground, with a single opening in the ceiling. Jugurtha died there of hunger. ↩

20. Morning games. ↩

21. “I seek not thee, I seek a fish;
    Why flee from me O Gaul?”

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22. “Good! he has caught it!” ↩

23. “Christ reigns!” ↩

24. A proverbial expression meaning “The dullest of the dull” —⁠Note by the Author ↩

25. Death. ↩

26. “The city and the world!” ↩