[Footnote 90: Caesar's conduct during his stay with Nicomedes (with embellishments) was thrown in his teeth repeatedly during his career. According to Suetonius (Life of Caesar, chapter 49) the soldiers sang scurrilous verses, as follows: Gallias Caesar subegit, Nicomedes Caesarem. Ecce Caesar nunc triumphat qui subegit Gallias, Nicomedes non triumphat qui subegit Caesarem. Dio undoubtedly had these verses before him, in either Suetonius or some other work, but seems to have been too slow-witted to appreciate the _double entendre_ in _subegit_, which may signify voluptuary as well as military prowess. Hence, though he might have turned the expression exactly by [Greek: hupaegageto] he contented himself with the prosaic [Greek: hedoulosato]] [Footnote 91: This remark (as Cobet pointed out) is evidently a perversion of an old nursery jingle (nenia): _Si male faxis vapulabis, si bene faxis rex eris._ And another form of it is found in Horace, Epistles (I, 1, 59-60): _at pueri ludentes 'rex eris' aiunt 'si recte fades.'_ The soldiers simply changed the position of male and bene in the line above cited.] [Footnote 92: Possibly, Boissevain thinks, this is a corruption for the Furius Leptinus mentioned by Suetonius, Life of Caesar, chapter 39.] [Footnote 93: At present seven scattered months have thirty-one days. Caesar, when he took the Alexandrian month of thirty days as his standard, found the same discrepancy of five days as did the Egyptians. Besides these he lopped two more days off one particular month, then spread his remainder of seven through the year.] [Footnote 94: I follow in this sentence the reading of all the older texts as well as Boissevain's. Only Dindorf and Melber omit [Greek: chai tetrachosiois], making the number of years 1061. The usual figuring, 1461, has pertinence: the number is just four times 365-1/4 and was recognized as an Egyptian year-cycle. As to the facts, however, Sturz points out (note 139 to Book 43) that after the elapse of fourteen hundred and sixty-one years eleven days must be subtracted instead of one day added. Pope Gregory XIII ascertained this when in A.D. 1582 he summoned Aloysius and Antonius Lilius to advise him in regard to the calendar. (Boissée also refers here to Ideler, _Manuel de Chronologie_, II, 119ff.)] [Footnote 95: The name of these islands is spelled both _Gymnasioe and Gymnesioe_, and they are also called _Baleares_ and _Pityusoe_. Cp. the end of IX, 10, in the transcript of Zonaras (Volume I).] [Footnote 96: This is of course New Carthage (Karthago Nova), the Spanish colony of the African city.]