PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



foro statutas ; haec videlicet mensura honorata 

 tunc erat. non praeteribo et Cn. Octavium ob 

 unum SC.i verbum. hic regem Antiochum daturum 

 se responsum dicentem virga, quam teiiebat forte, 

 circumscripsit priusque, quam egrederetur circulo illo, 

 responsum dare coegit. in qua legatione interfecto 

 senatus statuam poni iussit quam oculatissimo loco, 

 eaque est in rostris. invenitur statua decreta et 

 Taraciae Gaiae sive Fufetiae virgini Vestali, ut 

 poneretur ubi vellet, quod adiectum non minus 

 honoris habet quam feminae esse decretam. meri- 

 tum eius ipsis ponam annalium verbis : quod cam- 

 pum Tiberinum gratificata esset ea populo. 



XII. Invenio et Pythagorae et Alcibiadi in 

 cornibus comitii positas, cum bello Samniti Apollo 

 Pythius iussisset fortissimo Graiae gentis et alteri 

 sapientissimo simulacra celebri loco dicari. eae 

 stetere, donec Sulla dictator ibi curiam faceret. 

 mirumque est, illos patres Socrati cunctis ab eodem 

 deo sapientia praelato Pythagoran praetulisse aut 

 tot aliis virtute Alcibiaden et quemquam utroque ^ 

 Themistoch. 



^ 8c B, cd. Leul. Voss. : scilicet rell. 

 ^ utraque coni. Mayhoff. 



" This is a mistake. This act was performed by C. Popillius 

 Laenas when Antiochus IV was on his 4th campaign against 

 Egypt. 



^ In fact on an embassy to Syria connected with troubles 

 on the accession of Antiochus V (not IV). 



" Oculalissimus is the • single word ' to which Pliny alludes 

 above, meaning ' most visible to the eye.' 



^ It was in fact an enlargement of the original Senate-house. 



* The Athenian chiefly responsible for Athens' sea-power 

 and the defeat of Xerxes by sea at Salamis in 480 B.c. 



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