[105] This story is rejected both by Hardy and by Friedländer.
[106] Juvenal had a leaning to Stoicism: cf. Sat. 10 ad fin., and his references to fate, e.g. 7, 200; 10, 365; 12, 63. He believes in the gods (13, 247-9), but disbelieves the doctrines of the popular religion (2, 149 sqq.).
[107] The inscription records the appointment of Cilo’s sons and a woman Lutulla as trustees of a fund, the interest of which was to be disbursed to the people of Comum.
[108] Hermes, iii. 31 sqq.
[109] The inscription in Caria, formerly supposed to give P. as praenomen, is now shown to have been misread.
[110] The inhabitants of Terni (Interamna) erected a statue to Tacitus as to a fellow-townsman in A.D. 1514.
[111] Bull. de Corr. Hell., 1890, p. 621, quoted by Prof. W. M. Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire, p. 228.
[112] One of the speakers in the Dialogue, Curiatius Maternus, was the author of tragedies Medea and Thyestes, and of praetextae Domitius and Cato (Dial. 2-3).
[113] Various attempts have been made, especially in a work published in London, 1878, to prove, of course unsuccessfully, that the Annals were forged in the fifteenth century by the Italian scholar Poggio Bracciolini.
[114] Fabius Rusticus, a friend of Seneca, quoted also for the shape of Britain (Agr. 10).