[388] The name was derived from Caliga, a kind of boot, studded with nails, used by the common soldiers in the Roman army.
[389] According to Tacitus, who gives an interesting account of these occurrences, Treves was the place of refuge to which the young Caius was conveyed.—Annal. i.
[390] In c. liv. of TIBERIUS, we have seen that his brothers Drusus and Nero fell a sacrifice to these artifices.
[391] Tiberius, who was the adopted father of Germanicus.
[392] Natriceus, a water-snake, so called from nato, to swim. The allusion is probably to Caligula's being reared in the island of Capri.
[393] As Phaeton is said to have set the world on fire.
[394] See the Life of TIBERIUS, c. lxxiii.
[395] His name also was Tiberius. See before, TIBERIUS, c. lxxvi.
[396] Procida, Ischia, Capri, etc.
[397] The eagle was the standard of the legion, each cohort of which had its own ensign, with different devices; and there were also little images of the emperors, to which divine honours were paid.