[711] The “phaleræ” were bosses of metal, often gold, attached to the harness of the horse. See B. vii. c. 29.
[712] He would probably imply hereby that, as he states subsequently, at this period gold rings were not as yet worn by all the members of the senate.
[713] A.U.C. 449.
[714] “Ædiculam æream”—of brass or bronze.
[715] For the explanation of this term, see B. vii. c. 60.
[716] See B. x. c. 2. Livy tells us that this shrine or temple was built in the area or place of Vulcan.
[717] Livy, B. xxiii. speaks of one modius as being the real quantity. Florus, B. ii. c. 16, says two modii: but Saint Augustin, De Civit. Dei. B. iii. c. 19, and most other writers, mention three modii.
[718] Q. Servilius Cæpio. He and M. Livins Drusus had been most intimate friends, and each had married the other’s sister. The assassination of Drusus was supposed by some to have been committed at the instigation of Cæpio. The latter lost his life in an ambush, B.C. 90.
[719] See B. xxviii. c. 41.
[720] See B. ii. c. 85.