[2643] See B. xxxiii. c. [19].
[2644] “Choragio.”
[2645] He was defeated and slain in Africa by Juba and P. Attius Varus.
[2646] And, consequently, of more strict manners, and more strict morals.
[2647] “Tabulis.” The wooden frames, probably, which formed the margin of one side of each theatre, and which, when they were brought together, would make a diameter running through the circle which they formed. Hardouin thinks that these theatres are alluded to in Virgil, Georg. B. III. l. 22, et seq.
[2648] In allusion, probably, to the addresses delivered by Curio, when tribune, from the Rostra, in favour of Cæsar.
[2649] “Pensiles.” Pliny not improbably intends a pun here, this word meaning also “suspended,” or “poised”—in reference, probably, to their suspension on the pivots in Curio’s theatres.
[2650] Between Cæsar and Pompey, which he is supposed to have inflamed for his own private purposes.
[2651] He was prætor B.C. 144; and, in order that he might complete his aqueduct, his office was prolonged another year.
[2652] This aqueduct was begun by Appius Claudius Cæcus, the censor, and was the first made at Rome; B.C. 313.