[1248] This pestilence is also mentioned by Dion Cassius; it took place A.U.C. 732.—B.
[1249] We have an account of the disastrous expedition of Varus in Florus, B. iv. c. 12.—B.
[1250] Suetonius speaks of calumnious pamphlets (libelli), that were circulated about, even in the senate-house, to his extreme disparagement.
[1251] A posthumous son of M. Vipsanius Agrippa by Julia, the daughter of Augustus, by whom he was adopted together with Tiberius. He was afterwards banished to Planaria, off the coast of Corsica, on account of his savage and intractable character, though guilty of no crime. Augustus is said to have privately visited him there, which, coming to the ears of Livia, increased her enmity against this youth, and he was murdered by her orders or those of Tiberius.
[1252] Tacitus, Ann. B. i. c. 3, says that he was banished by the artifices of Nero.—B.
[1253] After his death his solemn apotheosis took place in the Campus Martius. In some of the coins which were struck even during his life-time, he was called “Divus,” or “the god.”
[1254] For Tiberius Nero, the father of Tiberius Cæsar, took the side of M. Antonius in the Civil War.—B.
[1255] We have no mention of Pedius, or Phedius, as he is named in some of the MSS., in any of the ancient authors. A story of the same import is related of Solon and Tellus, by Herodotus, B. i. c. 30, and by Plutarch.—B.
[1256] A town of Arcadia. See B. iv. c. 10.
[1257] This is also related by Valerius Maximus, B. vii. c. 1.—B.