[Footnote 45: This is an error either of Dio or of some copyist. The person made king of the Jews at this time was in reality Antigonus the son of Aristobulus and nephew of Hyrcanus. Compare chapter 41 of this book, and Book Forty-nine, chapter 22. In this same sentence I read _[Greek: echthos]_ (as Boissevain and the MSS.) in place of _[Greek: ethos]_.] [Footnote 46: Hurling from the Tarpeian rock was a punishment that might be inflicted only upon freemen. Slaves would commonly be crucified or put out of the way by some method involving similar disgrace.] [Footnote 47: After "Menas advised it" Zonaras in his version of Dio has: "bidding him cut the ship's cable, if he liked, and sail away."] [Footnote 48: Suetonius (Life of Augustus, chapter 83) also mentions this fashion.] [Footnote 49: Verb suggested by Leunclavius.] [Footnote 50: This is the well known Gnosos in Crete. For further information in regard to the matter see Strabo X, 4, 9 (p. 477) and Velleius Paterculus, II, 81, 2.] [Footnote 51: There is at this point a gap of one line in the MSS.] [Footnote 52: Using Naber's emendation [Greek: probeblaemenoi].] [Footnote 53: The Latin word _testudo_, represented in Greek by the precisely equivalent [Greek: chelonae] in Dio's narrative, means "tortoise."] [Footnote 54: The amount is not given in the MSS. The traditional sum, incorporated in most editions to fill the gap and complete the sense, is _thirty-five_. "One hundred" is a clever conjecture of Boissevain's.] [Footnote 55: Probably in A.D. 227.] [Footnote 56: Called _Colapis_ by Strabo and Pliny.] [Footnote 57: A marginal note in Reimar's edition suggests amending the rather abrupt [Greek: loipois] at this point to [Greek: Libournois] ("waged war with (i. e., against) thee Liburni"); and we might be tempted to follow it, but for the fact that Appian uses language almost identical with Dio's in his Illyrian Wars, chapter 27 ("He [Augustus] left Statilius Taurus to finish the war").] [Footnote 58: The gymnasiarch was an essentially Greek official, but might be found outside of Hellas in such cities as had come under Greek influence. In Athens he exercised complete supervision of the gymnasium, paying for training and incidentals, arranging the details of contests, and empowered to eject unsuitable persons from the enclosure. We have comparatively little information about his duties and general standing elsewhere, but probably they were nearly the same. The office was commonly an annual one.