[340] Varus had served under Corbulo in Syria.

[341] In his life of Agricola Tacitus speaks of Domitian's red face as 'his natural bulwark against shame'.

[342] See chap. [39].

[343] See chap. [10].

[344] i.e. Publius Celer. As this Demetrius was present with Thrasea at the end, holding high philosophical discourse with him (Ann. xvi. 34), he seems to have been a Cynic in the modern sense as well.

[345] Another Stoic malcontent, brother of the Arulenus Rusticus mentioned in iii. [80].

[346] According to Dio they were two devoted and inseparable brothers. They became governors, one of Upper and the other of Lower Germany, and, being wealthy, were forced by Nero to commit suicide.

[347] Cp. ii. [10].

[348] Cp. iii. [9].

[349] Cp. i. [48], note [79].