[79: The fact that here several altars were dedicated, while elsewhere at these central sanctuaries only one is mentioned, may be explained perhaps by the cultus of Roma falling into the background by the side of that of the emperors. If at the very outset several altars were erected, which is probable, perhaps one of the sons caused altars to be set up as well to his father and perhaps his brother as to his own Genius.] [80: That the transfer took place shortly before Tacitus wrote the Germania in the year 98, he himself states, and that Domitian was its author, follows from the fact that he does not name the author.] [81: This, too, has been documentarily established by Zangemeister (_Westdeutsche Zeitschrift_, iii. 237 f.).] [82: This measurement holds for the line of forts from Rheinbrohl to Lorch (Cohausen, _der Röm. Grenzwall_, p. 7 f.). For the earthen rampart there falls to be deducted the stretch of the Main from Miltenberg to Grosskrotzenburg, of about thirty Roman miles. In the case of the older line of the Neckar the rampart is considerably shorter, since, instead of that from Miltenberg to Lorch, here comes in the much shorter one of the Odenwald from Wörth to Wimpfen.] [83: If, as is probable, the statement that Hadrian blocked the imperial frontier-roads by palisades against the barbarians (p. 122) relates in part and perhaps primarily to the upper Germanic, the wall, of which remains are extant, was not his work; whether this may have carried palisades or not, no report would mention these and pass over the wall itself. Dio. lxix. 9, says that Hadrian revised the defence of the frontier throughout the empire. The designation of the pale [_Pfahl_] or pale-ditch [_Pfahlgraben_] cannot be Roman; in Latin the stakes, which, driven into the wall of the camp, form a palisade-chain for it, are called not _pali_, but _valli_ or _sudes_, just as the wall itself is never other than _vallum_. If the designation in use from of old for this purpose apparently along the whole line among the Germans was really borrowed from the palisades, it must have been of Germanic origin, and can only have proceeded from the time when this wall stood before their eyes in its integrity and significance. Whether the "region" Palas which Ammianus mentions (xviii. 2, 15) is connected with this is doubtful.] [84: In such an one recently discovered between the forts of Schlossau and Hesselbach, 1850 yards from the former, about three miles from the latter, there has been found a votive inscription (_Korrespondenzblatt der Westdeutschen Zeitschrift_, 1 Jul. 1884), which the troop that built it--a detachment of the 1st cohort of the Sequani and Raurici under command of a centurion of the 22d legion, erected as a thanksgiving _ob burgum explic(itum)_. These towers thus were _burgi_.]