[2931] Posides, a eunuch who belonged to the Emperor Claudius, according to Suetonius, c. 28.
[2932] There are still submarine volcanoes in the vicinity of Sicily, but the spot here referred to is now unknown.
[2933] The Eaux Bonnes in the Basses Pyrénées are good for wounds. After the battle of Pavia they received from the soldiers of Jean d’Albret, king of Navarre, the name of Eaux d’arquebusade.
[2934] Only, Ajasson remarks, where the ophthalmia is caused by inflammation of the conjunctive.
[2935] He also called it his Puteolan villa.
[2936] The “Quæstiones Academicæ.”
[2937] “Monumenta.” Ajasson queries what monuments they were, thus raised by the “parvenu of Arpinum.” He suggests that the erection may have been a chapel, temple-library, or possibly funeral monument.
[2938] C. Antistius Vetus probably, a supporter of Julius Cæsar, Consul Suffectus, B.C. 30.
[2939] “In parte primâ.”
[2940] There are three Epigrams probably by this author in the Greek Anthology.