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NOTES<br />

NOTE 1. PAGE 3.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Palace of the Caesars. In this description of the Palace of the<br />

Caesars, I chiefly follow Lanciani and Burn's Rome and the Campagna,<br />

ch. viii. See, <strong>to</strong>o, Statius, Sylo, iv. 26-31 \ Claudian, De VI. Cons.<br />

Hon. 39-41.<br />

NOTE 2. PAGE 10.<br />

Lollia Paulina's jewels. See Pliny, N. H. ix. 58.<br />

NOTE 3. PAGE 14.<br />

Agrippina'' s talking thrush.<br />

'<br />

Agrippina, Claudii Principis, turdum<br />

habuit, quod nunquam ante, imitantem sermones humanos, cum haec<br />

proderem. Habebant et Csesares juvenes [t. e. Nero and Britannicus]<br />

sturnum, item luscinias, Grseco et Latino sermone dociles, praeterea<br />

. . .<br />

loquentes longiore etiam contextu.' Pliny, N. H. x. 59.<br />

NOTE 4. PAGE 14.<br />

Nero's genealogy. Nero was, in the female line, dlmepos greatgreat-grandson<br />

of Augustus. Britannicus was only the pronepos<br />

great-grandson of Octavia (the sister of Augustus), and great-nephew<br />

of Tiberius :<br />

Augustus = Scribonia<br />

Julia = Agrippa<br />

Agrippina<br />

I. = Germanicus<br />

Agrippina II. = Claudius<br />

Nero

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