[177] Two good points, but both untrue. [178] This too is probably hyperbole, but Vespasian may have owed his command in Germany to the influence of Vitellius' father. [179] See i. 52, note 99. [180] See ii. 64, 89. [181] See ii. 60. [182] i.e. the way back from the Forum to the Palace. [183] Including the city garrison and police. [184] In chap. 78 we find three cohorts of Guards still faithful to Vitellius, and, as it appears from ii. 93, 94 that men from the legions of Germany had been enlisted in the Guards, the term _Germanicae cohortes_ seems to refer to these three cohorts, in which perhaps the majority were men from the German army. [185] Said to be on the Quirinal. [186] Either the whole hill, or, if the expression is exact, the south-west summit. [187] This seems to have led her later into the paths of conspiracy, for she is said to have been banished by Domitian for her friendship with Arulenus Rusticus. [188] _Prominentem_ seems to mean the one that projected towards them. [189] The space lying between the two peaks of the Capitoline. [190] A technical term for the beams of the pediment. [191] 'Lars Porsenna of Clusium,' 507 B.C. [192] 'Burning the Capitol' was a proverb of utter iniquity. [193] In the war between Sulla and Marius, 83 B.C. [194] The capital town of the Volscians. This early history is told in the first book of Livy. [195] 507 B.C. [196] 83 B.C. The interval is really 425 years. [197] This, according to Pliny, was Sulla's own saying. [198] Consul in 69 B.C. He took the title of Capitolinus. [199] On the monument which details his exploits Augustus says that he restored the Capitol at immense cost without inscribing his name on it. [200] Flavius Sabinus. [201] Cp. chap. 70. [202] Cp. i. 20, 87; ii. 12. [203] Consul for November and December. His colleague, Caecilius Simplex, was on the other side (see chap. 68). [204] The dress of the worshippers of the Egyptian goddess Isis, who considered woollen clothes unclean. [205] A flight of steps leading down from the Capitol to the Forum. On them the bodies of criminals were exposed after execution. [206] Mucianus. THE TAKING OF TARRACINA