FOOTNOTES:

[125] At this time the town of Portus, on the north side of the Tiber's mouths, Ostia, on the south side, having been long neglected. Cf. chap. [xxvi. 7], [8].

[126] Five thousand; cf. chap. [xxiv. 2].

[127] Book III. iv. 36.

[128] Janus was an old Italian divinity, whose worship was said to have been introduced by Romulus. We are not told by anyone else that he was included among the Penates, but the statement is doubtless true.

[129] "This temple of Janus—the most celebrated, but not the only one in Rome—must have stood a little to the right of the Arch of Septimius Severus (as one looks toward the Capitol) and a little in front of the Mamertine Prison."—Hodgkin. The "Tria Fata" were three ancient statues of Sibyls which stood by the Rostra.

[130] i.e. the Fates.