[2211] The orator’s stage in the Forum was decorated with the “rostra,” or “beaks” of the ships of the Antiates; hence it received the name of “Rostrum.” The locality of the Rostra was changed by Julius Cæsar.
[2212] Alluding to the prostitution of the Rostra by the tribunes and others for the purposes of sedition, and the presentation by Augustus of the rostrate crown to Agrippa.
[2213] Which was suspended, as already mentioned, at the gate of his palace.
[2214] Athenæus and Fabius Pictor say that Janus was the first wearer of a crown; Pherecydes says it was Saturn, Diodorus Siculus Jupiter, and Leo Ægyptiacus Isis, who wore one of wheat.
[2215] Il. xiii, 736.
[2216] See cc. [34] and [35] of the present Book.
[2217] The Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemæan games.
[2218] See B. vii. c. 27.
[2219] He is called Tullus Hostilius by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the same as his grandson.
[2220] A.U.C. 411. The leaves of the holm-oak were employed by Romulus on the occasion above-mentioned.