[899] Now Vicenza.
[900] "Audiat haec tantum vel qui venit, ecce, Palaemon."—Eccl. iii. 50.
[901] All the editions have the word vitem; but we might conjecture, from the large produce, that it is a mistake for vineam, a vineyard: in which case the word vasa might be rendered, not bottles, but casks. The amphora held about nine gallons. Pliny mentions that Remmius bought a farm near the turning on the Nomentan road, at the tenth mile-stone from Rome.
[902] "Usque ad infamiam oris."—See TIBERIUS, p. 220, and the notes.
[903] Now Beyrout, on the coast of Syria. It was one of the colonies founded by Julius Caesar when he transported 80,000 Roman citizens to foreign parts.—JULIUS, xlii.
[904] This senatus consultum was made A.U.C. 592.
[905] Hirtius and Pansa were consuls A.U.C. 710.
[906] See NERO, c. x.
[907] As to the Bullum, see before, JULIUS, c. lxxxiv.
[908] This extract given by Suetonius is all we know of any epistle addressed by Cicero to Marcus Titinnius.