Some are good, some indifferent, and some again still worse;
Such, Avitus, you will find is a common case with verse.
THE END OF THE TWELVE CAESARS
FOOTNOTES:
[795] A.U.C. 804.
[796] A street, in the sixth region of Rome, so called, probably, from a remarkable specimen of this beautiful shrub which had made free growth on the spot.
[797] VITELLIUS, c. xv.
[798] Tacitus (Hist. iii.) differs from Suetonius, saying that Domitian took refuge with a client of his father's near the Velabrum. Perhaps he found it more safe afterwards to cross the Tiber.
[799] One of Domitian's coins bears on the reverse a captive female and soldier, with GERMANIA DEVICTA.
[800] VESPASIAN, c. xii; TITUS, c. vi.
[801] Such excavations had been made by Julius and by Augustus [AUG. xliii.], and the seats for the spectators fitted up with timber in a rude way. That was on the other side of the Tiber. The Naumachia of Domitian occupies the site of the present Piazza d'Espagna, and was larger and more ornamented.