[Footnote 42: Compare Book Forty three, chapter 9 (§4).]
[Footnote 43: Compare the first chapter of this Book.]
[Footnote 44: Compare Book Forty-three, chapter 47 (and see also XLVIII, 33, and LII, 41).]
[Footnote 45: This is an error either of Dio or of some copyist. The person made king of the Jews at this time was in reality Antigonus the son of Aristobulus and nephew of Hyrcanus. Compare chapter 41 of this book, and Book Forty-nine, chapter 22.
In this same sentence I read [Greek: echthos] (as Boissevain and the
MSS.) in place of [Greek: ethos].]
[Footnote 46: Hurling from the Tarpeian rock was a punishment that might be inflicted only upon freemen. Slaves would commonly be crucified or put out of the way by some method involving similar disgrace.]
[Footnote 47: After "Menas advised it" Zonaras in his version of Dio has: "bidding him cut the ship's cable, if he liked, and sail away.">[
[Footnote 48: Suetonius (Life of Augustus, chapter 83) also mentions this fashion.]
[Footnote 49: Verb suggested by Leunclavius.]
[Footnote 50: This is the well known Gnosos in Crete. For further information in regard to the matter see Strabo X, 4, 9 (p. 477) and Velleius Paterculus, II, 81, 2.]