Endnotes + 

Household servants. ↩ + 

Nero’s name was originally L. Domitius Ahenobarbus. ↩ + 

Here he is. ↩ + 

The slayer of Caligula. ↩ + 

Ιησούς Χριστός, Θεού Υιός, Σωτήρ (Iesous Christos, Theou Uios, Soter). ↩ + 

ΙΧΘΥΣ (Ichthus), the Greek word for “fish.” ↩ + 

Aedon turned into a nightingale. ↩ + 

A man who labors with chained feet. ↩ + 

“I came, I saw, I conquered.” ↩ + 

“I came, I saw, I fled.” ↩ + 

The matron who accompanies the bride and explains to her the duties of a wife. ↩ + 

The inhabitants of Italy were freed from military service by Augustus, in consequence of which the so-called cohors Italica, stationed generally in Asia, was composed of volunteers. The pretorian guards, in so far as they were not composed of foreigners, were made up of volunteers. ↩ + 

Yellow hair. ↩ + 

In the time of the Caesars a legion was always 12,000 men. ↩ + 

Of one husband. ↩ + 

Buffoon. ↩ + 

Actor. ↩ + 

A robe with train, worn especially by tragic actors. ↩ + 

The lowest part of the prison, lying entirely underground, with a single opening in the ceiling. Jugurtha died there of hunger. ↩ + 

Morning games. ↩ + 

“I seek not thee, I seek a fish; + 

Why flee from me O Gaul?” + 

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“Good! he has caught it!” ↩ + 

“Christ reigns!” ↩ + 

A proverbial expression meaning “The dullest of the dull” —⁠Note by the Author ↩ + 

Death. ↩ + 

“The city and the world!” ↩ + 