[62] Ibid., lib. xiv. c. 15.

[63] Ibid., c. 31.

[64] “... lacu in ipso navale prælium adornatur, ut quondam Augustus, structo cis Tiberim stagno; sed levibus navigiis et minori copiâ ediderat.” (Taciti Annal., xii. 56.)

[65] “Igitur in stagno Agrippæ (Tigellinus) fabricatus est ratem, cui superpositum convivium aliarum tractu navium moveretur ... volucres et feras diversis e terris, et animalia maris Oceano abusque petiverat.” (Taciti Annal., lib. xv. c. 37.)

[66] Taciti Ann., lib. xv. c. 42.

[67] Ibid., lib. xiv. c. 15.

[68] See p. [5].

[69] Santi-Bartoli (in a paper printed in the Miscellanea, by Fea, vol. i. p. ccxxiii.) states that in his time a quantity of leaden water-pipes, which carried water from the Thermæ of Titus to the Colosseum, were found in an orchard north of the Colosseum.

[70] Suetonii Nero, c. 12.

[71] This dedication is referred to by Eutropius thus,—