[354] An island in the Archipelago.
[355] This Theodore is noticed by Quintilian, Instit. iii. 1. Gadara was in Syria.
[356] It mattered not that the head substituted was Tiberius's own.
[357] The verses were probably anonymous.
[358] Oderint dum probent: Caligula used a similar expression; Oderint dum metuant.
[359] A.U.C. 778. Tacit. Annal. iv. The historian's name was A. Cremutius Cordo. Dio has preserved the passage, xlvii. p. 619. Brutus had already called Cassius "The last of the Romans," in his lamentation over his dead body.
[360] She was the sister of Germanicus, and Tacitus calls her Livia; but Suetonius is in the habit of giving a fondling or diminutive term to the names of women, as Claudilla, for Claudia, Plautilla, etc.
[361] Priam is said to have had no less than fifty sons and daughters; some of the latter, however, survived him, as Hecuba, Helena, Polyxena, and others.
[362] There were oracles at Antium and Tibur. The "Praenestine Lots" are described by Cicero, De Divin. xi. 41.
[363] Agrippina, and Nero and Drusus.