[109] Decetia, now Décise.
[110] Noviodunum, now Nevers.
[111] The ides of February. The middle of the month was called idus (from the Etruscan iduare—to divide; see div—idere). In March, May, June and October it fell on the 15th, during the rest of the months on the 13th day.
[112] Lilybaeum. A city on the western point of Sicily, now Marsala.
[113] Vesontio. Now Besançon.
[114] Argentoratum. Now Strassburg in Alsace.
[115] Opimian wine-jars. Jars containing the vintage of former years, jars with wine that was pressed under the rule of the Consul Lucius Opimius (633 years after the building of Rome.) See Cic. Brut. 83, 287; Vell. II, 7.
[116] Rhaetia, embraced portions of what is now Tyrol, Upper Bavaria and Switzerland.
[117] Pindar, (Πίνδαρος.) A Greek lyric poet, born at Thebes, 522 B. C. The only poems of Pindar which have come down to us complete are his Epinicia, festal songs to celebrate the triumph of the victor at the Greek national games.
[118] Imperial spies. For such persons, see Epict. Diss. IV, 13, 5: “Thoughtless people in Rome allow themselves to be arrested by the soldiers, in consequence of their over-hasty confidence. A soldier in civilian’s dress sits down beside you, and begins to abuse the emperor. You believe, that the circumstance that he commenced the reviling, affords you a guarantee of his trustworthiness, you therefore express your thoughts, and are instantly fettered and thrown into prison.”