Hunc Fauna, et nympha genitum Laurente Marica
Accipimus.—Aen. vii. 47.
Her name may have been changed after her deification; but we have no other accounts than those preserved by Suetonius, of several of the traditions handed down from the fabulous ages respecting the Vitellian family.
[690] The Aequicolae were probably a tribe inhabiting the heights in the neighbourhood of Rome. Virgil describes them, Aen. vii. 746.
[691] Nuceria, now Nocera, is a town near Mantua; but Livy, in treating of the war with the Samnites, always speaks of Luceria, which Strabo calls a town in Apulia.
[692] Cassius Severus is mentioned before, in AUGUSTUS, c. lvi.; CALIGULA, c. xvi., etc.
[693] A.U.C. 785.
[694] A.U.C. 787.
[695] He is frequently commended by Josephus for his kindness to the Jews. See, particularly, Antiq. VI. xviii.