[274]. MSS “of the fifth and tenth legion” (sic).
[275]. Another reading, “the secret recesses of the city.”
[276]. Gr. “chiliarch(s).”
[277]. Lit. “right hands.”
[278]. Cf. “Romane, memento.... Parcere subjectis.”—Virg. Æn. VI, 851 ff.
[279]. Gr. “polemarch.”
[280]. Did he claim kinship with his namesake Joseph?
[281]. Or, perhaps, “began, in his straits, to reason ... philosophically.”
[282]. The doctrine of metempsychosis.
[283]. Or “a darker region.”