[4] Perhaps the treatise Adversus Astrologos was written with the object of recommending the worship of the rural deities (xii. 1, 31). In one place (ii. 225) he says he intends to treat of lustrationes ceteraque sacrifitia.
[5] G. iv. 148.
[6] On the pro Milone, pro Scauro, pro Cornelia, in Pisonem, in toga candida.
[7] Scholia Bobbiensia.
[8] It is identical with the second book of Sacerdos, who lived at the close of the third century.
[9] Ann. xvi. 18.
CHAPTER V.
[1] Suetonius calls him Novocomensis. He himself speaks of Catullus as his own conterraneus, from which it has been inferred by some that he was born at Verona (N. H. Praef.). His full name is C. Plinius Secundus.
[2] Dubii Sermonis, sometimes named De Difficilibus Linguae Latinae.
[3] De Iaculatione Equestri.