[1901] In sending for the fig, and thinking of this method of speaking to the feelings of his fellow-countrymen.
[1902] A place in the Forum, where public meetings were held, and certain offences tried.
[1903] He alludes to the Puteal, or enclosed space in the Forum, consecrated by Scribonius Libo, in consequence of the spot having been struck by lightning.
[1904] On the banks of the Tiber, below the Palatine Mount. The whole of this passage is in a most corrupt state, and it is difficult to extract a meaning from it.
[1905] By slips from the old tree, as Tacitus seems to say—“in novos fœtus revivisceret.”
[1906] At the foot of the Capitoline Hill.
[1907] Probably near where the Curtius Lacus had stood in the early days of Rome. The story of Metius Curtius, who leaped into the yawning gulph in the Forum, in order to save his country, is known to every classical reader.
[1908] The Forum.
[1909] See B. xix. c. 6.
[1910] The Ficus Carica of Linnæus. It does bear fruit, though small, and disagreeable to the taste.