[2061] A kind of sausage, seasoned with myrtle. See also B. xxvii c. 49.
[2062] He means the Acroceraunian chain in Epirus, mentioned in B. iii.
[2063] See B. iii. c. 9.
[2064] He was one of the companions of Ulysses, fabled by Homer and Ovid to have been transformed by Circe into a swine.
[2065] Μυρσίνη was its Greek name.
[2066] See B. xxv. c. 59.
[2067] See B. xii. c. [2]. Ovid, Fasti, B. iv. l. 15, et seq., says that Venus concealed herself from the gaze of the Satyrs behind this tree.
[2068] Either this story is untrue, or we have a right to suspect that some underhand agency was employed for the purpose of imposing on the superstitious credulity of the Roman people.
[2069] Or Social War. See B. ii c. 85.
[2070] Near the altar of Consus, close to the meta of the Circus.