[1839] We learn from Valerius Maximus, that C. Pulcher was the first to vary the scenes of the stage with a number of colours.—B.
[1840] See Chapter [36] of this Book.
[1841] We have an amusing proof of this ignorance of Mummius given by Paterculus, B. i. c. 13, who says that when he had the choicest of the Corinthian statues and pictures sent to Italy, he gave notice to the contractors that if they lost any of them, they must be prepared to supply new ones. Ajasson offers a conjecture which is certainly plausible, that Mummius might possibly regard this painting as a species of talisman.—B.
[1842] In the eleventh Region of the City.
[1843] “Sub Veteribus;” meaning that part of the Forum where the “Old Shops” of the “argentarii” or money-brokers had stood.
[1844] We have an anecdote of a similar event, related by Cicero, as having occurred to Julius Cæsar, De Oratore, B. ii. c. 66.—B.
[1845] See B. vii. c. 39.
[1846] We have had this Temple referred to in B. ii. c. 23, B. vii. c. 39, B. viii. c. 64, and B. ix. c. 57: it is again mentioned in the [fortieth] Chapter of this Book, and in B. xxxvii. c. [5].—B.
[1847] In the “Vaporarium,” namely.—B. The Thermæ of Agrippa were in the Ninth Region of the City.
[1848] According to Hardouin, this was done after the battle of Actium, in which Augustus subdued his rival Antony.—B.