[6] Caligula.
[7] For Astura and Antium, see B. iii. c. 9.
[8] And well it might surprise him. If there was any foundation at all for the story, there can be little doubt that a trick was played for the purpose of imposing upon Caligula’s superstitious credulity, and that the rowers as well as the diving sailors were privy to it.
[9] “Limax.” A singular comparison, apparently.
[10] In B. ix. c. 41.
[11] See B. ix. c. 41, where he is speaking of a murex, a fish which bears no such affinity to the remora as to warrant our author’s expression, “Idem valere omnia ea genera.”
[12] Properly meaning “delay.” “Remora” is another reading, and perhaps a better one, as the word is found in Plautus.
[13] In B. ix. c. 41.
[14] From λύειν τὰς ὠδίνας, “to release from the pains of childbirth.”
[15] See B. ix. c. 67.