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being the year of the City, 41G. W The same thing was done 

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

 triumph over the Carthaginians : his column still remains 

 in the .Forum. 00 I am not certain whether this honour was not 

 first conferred by the people on L. Miuutius, the p roc feet of the 

 markets ; whose statue was erected without the Trigeminiau 

 Gate/' 1 by means of a tax of the twelfth of an as c - per head: 

 the sumo 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 A tins Xavius, w for example, was erected before the 

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

 senate, ho use itself was burnt at the funeral of Publius Clo- 

 dius. 64 The statue of llermodorus 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 fur a very different, and more important reason, that 

 the statue of Jloratius Codes wan erected, ho having singly 

 prevented the enemy from passing the SSublician bridge; 17 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 llostra, even though three in number; one of which 

 was repaired by Sextus Pacuvius Taurus, anlile of the people, 

 and the other two by M.Messala. 1 should have considered theso 

 and that of Attuti ^savius to have been the oldest, as having 



w We have an account of this transaction in Livv, B. viii. c. 14. This 

 trophy is also mentioned by Horns, 15. i. c. 11. The "Suggcstus" was 

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

 orators addressed the people* the place 1'rom which the general addressed 

 his soldiers, and the Mat occupied ly the emperor at the public games. B. 



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

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

 uiMiumcnt erected in its commemoration. B. 



61 See 15. xviii. c. 4. 



c - <k Unciuria stipe ;" the iwcia was the twelfth part of the "as," and 

 the word stijts was regarded us equivalent to <is t as being the usual pay of 

 the soldiers. 13. See Introduction to Vol. '111. ** See B. iv. c. iO. 



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

 $ 90-i. B. 



M We have some account of Ilcrmodorus in Cicero's Tusc. Qucs. 

 B.v. c. 3C. 15. ^ See U. x, c. 2, B. xviii. c. 3, and 15. xxxiii. c. 7. 



67 Livy, B. ii. c. 10, and Valerius Muximus, B. iii. c. 2, give an account 

 of this event. A. (Jeiliua incidentally rucutiona the btatue, and its po&i- 

 tion iu the Coinitium, B. iv. c. 6. B. 



