[1241] The Delian brass is mentioned by Cicero, in his oration “Pro Roscio Amerino,” s. 46, and in his Fourth oration “In Verrem,” s. 1.—B. Pausanias, in his “Eliaca,” says that the Spanish copper, or copper of Tartessus, was the first known.
[1242] Or Cattle Market: in the Eighth Region of the City. See B. xxxv. c. [7], and Chapter [16] of this Book.
[1243] A distinguished statuary and engraver on silver. He lived in Olympiad 87. Further mention is made of him by Cicero, Ovid, Strabo, and Pausanias. See also Chapter [19] of this Book.
[1244] There were several artists of this name. The elder Polycletus, a native either of Sicyon or of Argos, is probably the one here referred to. For further particulars of him, see Chapter [19].
[1245] The words in the original are, respectively candelabra, superficies, and scapi.—B.
[1246] Probably a proverbial expression at Rome, as it is employed by Juvenal, in an analogous manner, upon another occasion; Sat. iii. l. 132.—B.
[1247] Plutarch speaks of the Geganii as an ancient noble family at Rome.
[1248] See B. xxxiii. c. [53].
[1249] A.U.C. 585; we have an account of it in Livy, B. xiv. c. 42.—B.
[1250] This building is referred to by Velleius Paterculus, in the beginning of the Second Book of his History.—B. According to Aurelius Victor, it was situated in the Ninth Region of the City.