Nunc licet Esquiliis habitare salubribus, atque
Aggere in aprico spatiari.—Sat. 1. i. viii. 13.
[318] A.U.C. 757.
[319] A.U.C. 760.
[320] A.U.C. 762.
[321] Reviving the simple habits of the times of the republic; "nec fortuitum cernere cespitem," as Horace describes it.—Ode 15.
[322] A.U.C. 765.
[323] The portico of the temple of Concord is still standing on the side of the Forum nearest the Capitol. It consists of six Ionic columns, each of one piece, and of a light-coloured granite, with bases and capitals of white marble, and two columns at the angles. The temple of Castor and Pollux has been mentioned before: JUL. c. x.
[324] A.U.C. 766.
[325] A.U.C. 767.
[326] Augustus interlards this epistle, and that subsequently quoted, with Greek sentences and phrases, of which this is one. It is so obscure, that commentators suppose that it is a mis-reading, but are not agreed on its drift.