[131] According to Josephus 30,000 of the Vitellians perished and 4,500 of the followers of Vespasian.
[132] From the Oxford translation revised.
[133] Caligula, not Caius Julius Cæsar, is here referred to, he also having borne the name of Caius.
[134] Now Marseilles, founded by Phœnicians, who introduced, there a degree of Greek culture which long made the city famous.
[135] A brother of the Emperor Otho.
[136] Agricola was Consul in 77 a.d., and had for colleague Domitian, afterward Emperor.
PLINY THE YOUNGER
Born at Como, in 63 a.d.; died in 113; nephew of the elder Pliny; Consul in 100; governor of Bithynia and Pontus in 111; friend of Trajan and Tacitus; his letters and a eulogy of Trajan alone among his writings have survived.