[3041] “Primus auspicatus est.” In obedience to the “auspices,” probably.
[3042] In A.U.C. 720. See B. xxxvi. c. 24.
[3043] “Aqua Virgo.” This aqueduct, erected A.U.C. 735, still exists, and bears the name of “Aqua Vergine.”
[3044] Another story was, that it had this name from the circumstance that the spring was first pointed out by a girl to some soldiers in search of water.
[3045] In c. 23 of this Book.
[3046] This was only temporarily, in all probability.
[3047] There seems, as he says below, to be no general rule as to this point.
[3048] So called from the snow on their summit.
[3049] In B. xxvi. c. 16.
[3050] “Salix erratica.”