[1261] “Iconicæ,” “portrait statues,” from εἴκων, of the same meaning. This term is employed by Suetonius, in speaking of a statue of Caligula, c. 22.—B.
[1262] Pisistratus. These statues are mentioned in the [19th] Chapter of this Book, as being the workmanship of Praxiteles.—B.
[1263] See B. vii. cc. 31, 34: B. viii. c. 74: and B. ix. c. 63.
[1264] Near the Temple of Janus, in the Eighth Region of the City.
[1265] The Luperci were the priests of Pan, who, at the celebration of their games, called Lupercalia, were in the habit of running about the streets of Rome, with no other covering than a goat’s skin tied about the loins.—B.
[1266] “Pænula.” See B. viii. c. 73.
[1267] We are informed by Cicero, De Off. B. iii. c. 30, and by Valerius Maximus, B. ii. c. 7, that Marcinus made a treaty with the Numantines, which the senate refused to ratify, and that he was, in consequence, surrendered to the enemy. We may suppose that he regarded the transaction as redounding more to the discredit of the senate than of himself.—B.
[1268] See end of B. xviii.
[1269] In the First Region of the City, near the Capenian Gate.
[1270] “Celetes;” this appellation is derived from the Greek word κέλης, “swift,” and was applied to those who rode on horseback, in opposition to the charioteers—B.