[831] Covered, probably, with plates of silver.
[832] “Pegma.” A scaffold with storeys, which were raised or depressed, to all appearance, spontaneously. Caligula is the emperor meant.
[833] Another reading is “seven” pounds in weight, and “nine” pounds; which would appear to be more probable than seven thousand, and nine thousand, as given by the Bamberg MS. It is just possible, however, that the latter may have been the united weights of all the coronets contributed by Spain and Gaul respectively, the word “inter” being an interpolation.
[834] See B. iv. c. 31, B. xi. c. 47, and B. xviii. c. 20.
[835] Hence known as the “Golden Day,” according to Dion Cassius, B. lxiii.
[836] For further particulars as to the Golden Palace, see B. xxxvi. c. [24].
[837] A.U.C. 597.
[838] Or Marsic War. See B. ii. c. 85.
[839] There is an error in this statement, probably, unless we understand by it the small libra or pound of two ounces, mentioned in c. [13] of this Book.
[840] This remark is confirmatory of the incorrectness of the preceding statement.