[Footnote 3: There is a gap here in the Greek text. The conclusion of Agrippa'a speech is missing, as is also the earlier portion of Mæcenas's, with some brief preface thereto. In the next chapter we are full in the midst of the opposite argument,—in favor, namely, of the assumption of supreme power by Octavius Cæsar.]
[Footnote 4: Cobet prefers to read "fearlessly" (substituting [Greek: hadeos] for [Greek: aedeos]).]
[Footnote 5: Dio seems here to be imitating, in his phraseology, Thukydides (VII, 25). The proper reading is [Greek: peri herma] (two words), not [Greek: perierma] as in some of the MSS.]
[Footnote 6: Dindorf's reading (Greek: gunaichon te ton prosaechouson autois).]
[Footnote 7: Compare Suetonius, Augustus, chapter 37. In practice there were six of them,—three to nominate senators, and three to make a review of the knights.]
[Footnote 8: Here some words have evidently fallen out of the text.]
[Footnote 9: Reading [Greek: hapo] with Dindorf.]
[Footnote 10: Reading [Greek: archousi] (MSS. and Boissevain) instead of
[Greek: archomenois] (Xylander).]
[Footnote 11: Adopting Boissevain's reading (Greek: diagein estai).]
[Footnote 12: A reference particularly to the ludi Capitolini, founded by
Domitian.]