[1338] The Comitium was a place in the forum at Rome, where the “comitia curiata” were held, and certain offences tried and punished. It was here also that the tribunal, or “suggestum,” was situate.
[1339] We are informed by Hardouin, that he held the office of Prætor A.U.C. 660.—B.
[1340] “A puero;” not necessarily a slave, as Littrè seems to think.
[1341] On Hardouin’s authority, we learn that A. Pompeius was surnamed Bithynicus, and was prætor A.U.C. 680.—B.
[1342] The death of Thalna is given somewhat more in detail by Valerius Maximus, B. ix. c. 12; it took place A.U.C. 590.—B.
[1343] The ancients reckoned the hours from sun-rise; in summer, the second hour of the day would be six o’clock A.M., and in the winter, a quarter past eight.—B.
[1344] Bankers, and usurers more especially, had their shops in the Roman Forum.
[1345] “Cum vadimonium differri jubet.”—B.
[1346] Augustus built a third Forum, because the old one and that of Julius Cæsar, were not found sufficient for the great increase of business. He adorned it with a temple of Mars, and the statues of the most distinguished Romans.
[1347] According to Hardouin, this ivory statue was in the eighth region of the city.—B.