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590 DARKNESS AND DAWN
It was the commonest of ancient Christian symbols. See Tert. De
Bapt. i.; Jer. Ep. 43; Aug. De Civ. Dei, xviii. 23; and the writer's
Lives of the i.
Fathers, xvi.
NOTE 19. PAGE 81.
Arrest of Onesimus. Some readers will recognise an incident
which really occurred in the life of Alypius, the friend of St. Au-
Lives of
gustine, which the English reader may see narrated in my the Fathers, ii. 313. NOTE 20. PAGE 101.
Agrippas. Children born feet-first were called agrippas, and to be
so born was regarded as a certain augury of misfortune. Pliny, N.
H. vii. 6.
NOTE 21. PAGE 114.
Ancient dancing. The allusions to the dancing of the pantomimic
actors may all be found in Lucan's De Sallatione ; Veil. Paterc. ii.
83;
Athen. xiv. 627-630; and other ancient writers.
NOTE 22. PAGE 124.
Lucan's daring flatteries
may be read in Pharsal. i. 33-66.
NOTE 23. PAGE 137.
The Stemma Ccesarum. For further facts and details about the
Caesarian family, See Champagny, Les Cesars, ii. 77, and passim.
NOTE 24. PAGE 145.
Otho's banquet. The details here described are derived in every
particular from Pliny, Suetonius, Seneca, and other ancient writers.
NOTE 25. PAGE 152.
Tossing in a blanket. Sagatio. Suet, Otho, 2; Mart. i. 4. A
case is mentioned in Ulpian of a boy who was killed by it. Greek,
TraA/iof.
NOTE 26. PAGE 157.
Age of Britannicus. There is some historic uncertainty about the
age of Britannicus. The proper date for assuming the toga virilis was
the end of the fifteenth year, but Nero had been allowed to assume it
soon after his fourteenth birthday (Tac. Ann. xii. 41). In Ann. xii.
25 Tacitus says that Nero was two years older (biennio majorem) than
Britannicus; but from xiii. 6 and 15, where we are told that Nero was
barely seventeen at the beginning of his reign, and that Britannicus
was nearly fifteen when he was murdered, it seems clear that triennio
would be nearer the truth than biennio. Eckhel, in his Doctr. Num. vi.