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being the year of the City, 416.^^ The same thing was done 

 also by Cains Duillius, who was the first to obtain a naval 

 triumph over the Carthaginians : his column still remains 

 in the Forum. ''^ I am not certain whether this honour was not 

 fii'st conferred by the people on L. Minutius, the praefect of the 

 markets ; whose statue was erected without the Trigeminian. 

 Gate/^ by means of a tax of the twelfth of an as*^- per head : 

 the same thing, however, had been previously done by the 

 senate, and it would have been a more distinguished honour 

 had it not had its origin on such frivolous occasions. The 

 statue of Attus Navius,^^ for example, was erected before the 

 senate-house, the pedestal of which was consumed when th^ 

 senate-house itself was burnt at the funeral of Publius Clo- 

 dius.''^ The statue of Hermodorus also, the Ephesian,''^ the 

 interpreter of the laws which were transcribed by the Decem- 

 virs, was erected by the public in the Comitium.^^ 



It was for a very different, and more important reason, that 

 the statue of Horatius Codes war> erected, he having singly 

 prevented the enemy from passing the Sublician bridge i'^'^ a 

 statue which remains to this day. I am not at all sur- 

 prized, too, that statues of the Sibyl should have been erected 

 near the Rostra, even though three in number ; one of which 

 was repaired by Sextus Pacu\dus Taurus, aedile of the people, 

 and the other two by M.Messala. I should have considered these 

 and that of Attus I^avius to have been the oldest, as having 



59 We have an account of this transaction in Livy, B. viii. c. 14. This 

 trophy is also mentioned by Florus, B. i. c. 11. The "Suggcstus" Avas 

 an elevated place, formed for various purposes, the stage from which the 

 orators addressed the people, the place from which the general addresi;ecl 

 his soldiers, and the seat occupied by the emperor at the public games. — B. 



''O Florus, B. ii. c. 2, gives an account of the arrangements and equip- 

 ment of the Carthaginian fleet, the victory of Duillius, and the rostral 

 monument erected in its commemoration. — B. 



^^ See B. xviii. c. 4. 



62 " Unciaria stipe ;" the wwia was the twelfth part of the "as," and 

 the word stips was regarded as equivalent to as, as being the usual pay of 

 the soldiers. — B. See Introduction to Vol. III. ^a g^g j> j^y. c. ".iO. 



6* This circumstance is mentioned by Cicero in his Defence of Milo, 

 § 90-1.— B. 



f"5 We have some account of Hermodorus in Cicero's Tusc. Quaes. 

 B. V. c. 36. — B. <^6 See B. x. c. 2, B. xviii. c. 3, and B. xxxiii. c. 7. 



^■^ Livy, B. ii. c. 10, and Valerius Maximus, B. iii. c. 2, give an account 

 of this event. A. Gellius incidentally mentions the statue, and its posi- 

 tion in the Comitium, B. iv. c. 5. — B. 



