[182] i.e. the way back from the Forum to the Palace.
[183] Including the city garrison and police.
[184] In chap. [78] we find three cohorts of Guards still faithful to Vitellius, and, as it appears from ii. [93], [94] that men from the legions of Germany had been enlisted in the Guards, the term Germanicae cohortes seems to refer to these three cohorts, in which perhaps the majority were men from the German army.
[185] Said to be on the Quirinal.
[186] Either the whole hill, or, if the expression is exact, the south-west summit.
[187] This seems to have led her later into the paths of conspiracy, for she is said to have been banished by Domitian for her friendship with Arulenus Rusticus.
[188] Prominentem seems to mean the one that projected towards them.
[189] The space lying between the two peaks of the Capitoline.
[190] A technical term for the beams of the pediment.
[191] 'Lars Porsenna of Clusium,' 507 b.c.