[618] Tac. (Hist. i. 62).
[619] Suetonius (Otho, 4) calls him Seleukus.
[620] So I have ventured to translate “speculator.” The speculatores under the empire were employed as special adjutants, messengers, and body-guards of a general.
[621] Counting inclusively in the Roman fashion.
[622] The Miliarium Aureum, or Golden Milestone. London Stone was established by the Romans in Britain for the same purpose.
[623] This habit of the ancient Romans, of being carried about Rome in litters, survives to the present day in the Pope’s “sedia gestatoria.”
[624] We learn from Tacitus that this man was the standard-bearer (vexillarius) of a cohort which still accompanied Galba. Tac. (Hist. i. 41).
[625] Galba before leaving the palace had put on a light, quilted tunic. Suet. (Galba, ch. 19).
[626] She was obliged to pay for it. Tac. (Hist. i. 47).
[627] Patrobius was a freedman of Nero who had been punished by Galba. The words “and Vitellius” are probably corrupt.