[108] THE LITTLE TOWN OF RODUMNA. _Municipes_, that is, sharers, was the name originally bestowed upon the inhabitants of those cities most closely connected with Rome, for instance Tusculum, Formiae, Lanuvium. Later the term extended to all the cities in Italy, so that every Roman country-town was called _municipium_. Still later the name included all the cities in the empire. We use the word _municipium_ here incorrectly, in the sense of the German “country-town” for the elevation of all the cities of the empire to _municipia_ did not occur until several decades _after_ Domitian’s reign. What is here said of the importance of Rodumna is not supported by the writings of the ancient authors. [109] DECETIA, now Décise. [110] NOVIODUNUM, now Nevers. [111] THE IDES OF FEBRUARY. The middle of the month was called _idus_ (from the Etruscan _iduare_--to divide; see _div--idere_). In March, May, June and October it fell on the 15th, during the rest of the months on the 13th day. [112] LILYBAEUM. A city on the western point of Sicily, now Marsala. [113] VESONTIO. Now Besançon. [114] ARGENTORATUM. Now Strassburg in Alsace. [115] OPIMIAN WINE-JARS. Jars containing the vintage of former years, jars with wine that was pressed under the rule of the Consul Lucius Opimius (633 years after the building of Rome.) See Cic. _Brut._ 83, 287; _Vell._ II, 7. [116] RHAETIA, embraced portions of what is now Tyrol, Upper Bavaria and Switzerland. [117] PINDAR, (Πίνδαρος.) A Greek lyric poet, born at Thebes, 522 B. C. The only poems of Pindar which have come down to us complete are his _Epinicia_, festal songs to celebrate the triumph of the victor at the Greek national games. [118] IMPERIAL SPIES. For such persons, see Epict. _Diss._ IV, 13, 5: “Thoughtless people in Rome allow themselves to be arrested by the soldiers, in consequence of their over-hasty confidence. A soldier in civilian’s dress sits down beside you, and begins to abuse the emperor. You believe, that the circumstance that he commenced the reviling, affords you a guarantee of his trustworthiness, you therefore express your thoughts, and are instantly fettered and thrown into prison.” [119] THE CAMPAIGN ON THE RHINE AGAINST THE GERMANS. For Trajan's campaign on the Rhine, see Plin. _Paneg._ 14. Some expressions in the description given there have been literally transcribed.