“And the litters are already awaiting your commands on deck,” added the freedman. “You have surpassed yourself, Herodianus! Well, then, whenever it is your pleasure....” “Then it is settled,” said Octavia, going to the door. “For a few days you will be my guest.” “For as long as you will allow,” Aurelius would have said; but he thought better of it and only bowed in answer. FOOTNOTES: [1] TRIREME. “Three-oared;” a vessel with three ranks of rowers, one above another. The time was given by the beats of a hammer or by word of command; not unfrequently by an air played on a flute or a sailor’s chant (_cantus nauticus_). [2] POSIDIUM, now called the Punta della Licosa, south of the Gulf of Salerno. [3] CAPREAE, (Isle of goats) now Capri. [4] PUTEOLI. An important port in Campania, now Pozzuoli. Concerning Puteoli’s commerce, see Stat. _Silv._ III, 5, 75. [5] APOLLONIUS OF TYANA in Cappadocia. An ascetic and ecstatic philosopher and miracle-worker (A.D. 50) often compared with Christ by heathen writers. (Philostratus wrote his life.) [6] IVORY MAP. Sketch-maps of various routes were common in ancient times, and were often engraved on wine-jars, cups, etc. [7] TUNIC. The short-sleeved under-garment worn by both sexes, the house costume, over which men, when they went out, threw the toga, women the stola or palla. During the period of the empire a second garment, the _tunica interior_, corresponding to the shirt of modern times, was worn under the tunic. [8] THE PALACE OF TIBERIUS. For an account of the cruel and extravagant proceedings of Tiberius at Capri, see Tacitus _Ann._ I, 67, Suet. _Tib._ 40, Juv. _Sat._ X, 72 and 93. Insignificant remains of this palace are visible at the present day: _Villa di Timberio_; the perpendicular cliff 700 feet high is called _il salto_ (the leap.) [9] CASTOR AND POLLUX. Leda’s twins, the Dioscuri, were the patrons of sea-faring men. [10] WAX-TABLET (_tabula cerata_). A little tablet covered with wax, on which memoranda were written with the stylus. In the schools the wax-tablet supplied the place of the slate, and in daily life was a substitute for our note-book.