[3041] The “bull.” This cannot possibly be the bittern, as some have suggested, for that is a large bird.
[3042] Supposed to be the Motacilla flava of Linnæus, the spring wagtail.
[3043] Hence the Latin name “psittacus.” From this, Cuvier thinks that the first known among these birds to the Greeks and Romans, was the green perroquet with a ringed neck, the Psittacus Alexandri of Linnæus.
[3044] Cuvier says that this is the jay, the Corvus glandarius of Linnæus; but that they are not more apt at speaking than the other kinds.
[3045] Cuvier remarks, that these can only be monstrosities.
[3046] Britannicus, the son of Claudius, and Nero, his stepson.
[3047] In the eighth region of the city.
[3048] The nephew and son of Tiberius.
[3049] Festus says that the “fane of Rediculus was without the Porta Capena; it was so called because Hannibal, when on the march from Capua, turned back (redierit) at that spot, being alarmed at certain portentous visions.”
[3050] P. Cornelius Scipio Æmilianus Africanus Minor, the younger son of L. Æmilius Paulus, the conqueror of Macedonia. It is doubtful whether he died a natural death, or was privately assassinated by the partisans of the Gracchi. His wife, Cornelia, and his mother, Sempronia, were suspected by some persons.