961 ([return])
[ There were two Arrias, mother and daughter, Tacit. Annal. xvi. 34. 3.]
962 ([return])
[ Persius died about nine days before he completed his twenty-ninth year.]
963 ([return])
[ Venusium stood on the confines of the Apulian, Lucanian, and Samnite territories.
Sequor hunc, Lucanus an Appulus anceps;
Nam Venusinus arat finem sub utrumque colonus.
Hor Sat. xi. 1. 34. ( Sat. i. 6. 45.)]
965 ([return])
[ Horace mentions his being in this battle, and does not scruple to admit that he made rather a precipitate retreat, “relicta non bene parmula.”—Ode xi. 7-9.]
966 ([return])
[ See Ode xi. 7. 1.]