[887] Verrius Flaccus is mentioned by St. Jerome, in conjunction with Athenodorus of Tarsus, a Stoic philosopher, to have flourished A.M.C. 2024, which is A.U.C. 759; A.D. 9. He is also praised by Gellius, Macrobius, Pliny, and Priscian. [888] Cinna wrote a poem, which he called "Smyrna," and was nine years in composing, as Catullus informs us, 93. 1. [889] See AUGUSTUS, cc. lxii. lxix. [890] Cornelius Alexander, who had also the name of Polyhistor, was born at Miletus, and being taken prisoner, and bought by Cornelius, was brought to Rome, and becoming his teacher, had his freedom given him, with the name of his patron. He flourished in the time of Sylla, and composed a great number of works; amongst which were five books on Rome. Suetonius has already told us [AUGUSTUS, xxix.] that he had the care of the Palatine Library. [891] No such consul as Caius Licinius appears in the Fasti; and it is supposed to be a mistake for C. Atinius, who was the colleague of Cn. Domitius Calvinus, A.U.C. 713, and wrote a book on the Civil War. [892] Julius Modestus, in whom the name of the Julian family was still preserved, is mentioned with approbation by Gellius, Martial, Quintilian, and others. [893] Melissus is mentioned by Ovid, De Pontif. iv 16-30. [894] See AUGUSTUS, c. xxix. p. 93, and note. [895] The trabea was a white robe, with a purple border, of a different fashion from the toga. [896] See before, c. x. [897] See CLAUDIUS, c. x1i. and note. [898] Remmius Palaemon appears to have been cotemporary with Pliny and Quintilian, who speak highly of him. [899] Now Vicenza. [900] "Audiat haec tantum vel qui venit, ecce, Palaemon."--Eccl. iii. 50. [901] All the editions have the word vitem; but we might conjecture, from the large produce, that it is a mistake for vineam, a vineyard: in which case the word vasa might be rendered, not bottles, but casks. The amphora held about nine gallons. Pliny mentions that Remmius bought a farm near the turning on the Nomentan road, at the tenth mile-stone from Rome. [902] "Usque ad infamiam oris."--See TIBERIUS, p. 220, and the notes. [903] Now Beyrout, on the coast of Syria. It was one of the colonies founded by Julius Caesar when he transported 80,000 Roman citizens to foreign parts.--JULIUS, xlii. [904] This senatus consultum was made A.U.C. 592. [905] Hirtius and Pansa were consuls A.U.C. 710. [906] See NERO, c. x. [907] As to the Bullum, see before, JULIUS, c. lxxxiv. [908] This extract given by Suetonius is all we know of any epistle addressed by Cicero to Marcus Titinnius. [909] See Cicero's Oration, pro Caelio, where Atracinus is frequently mentioned, especially cc. i. and iii. [910] "Hordearium rhetorem." [911] From the manner in which Suetonius speaks of the old custom of chaining one of the lowest slaves to the outer gate, to supply the place of a watch-dog, it would appear to have been disused in his time.