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one, suddenly expired at the door of the senate-house, just as 
he was about to retire. Cn. Eaebius Tamphilus, who had 
been praetor also, expired while he was enquiring of a boy 
what time it was : Aulus Pompeius^^ died just after saluting 
the gods in the Capitol ; and M. Juventius Thalna,^^ the consul, 
while he was sacrificing. C. Servilius Pansa expired at the 
second hour of the day,^^ while he was standing in the Porum, 
near a shop there, and leaning on the arm of his brother, 
Publius Pansa : the judge Bsebius, while he was giving an 
order for an enlargement of bail M. Terentius Corax, while 
he was making an entry in his note-book in the Porum : only 
last year too, a member of the equestrian order at Eome, 
while whispering in the ear of a man of consular rank, before 
the ivory Apollo, in the Porum of Augustus and, what is 
more singular than all, C. Julius, the physician, while he was 
applying, with his probe,^^ some ointment to the eye of a pa- 
tient. Aulus Manlius Torquatus, a man of consular rank, died 
in the act of reaching a cake at dinner ; L. Tuscius Yalla, the 
physician, while he was taking a draught of honeyed wine ;^ 
^9 We are informed by Hardouin, that he held the office of Praetor 
A.u.c. 660,— B. 
20 " A puero not necessarily a slave, as Littre seems to think. 
21 On Hardouin' s authority, we learn that A. Pompeius was surnamed 
Bithynicus, and was praetor a.u.c. 680. — B. 
23 The death of Thalna is given somewhat more in detail by Valerius 
Maximus, B. ix. c. 12 ; it took place a.tj.c. 590. — B. 
23 The ancients reckoned the hours from sun-rise ; in summer, the 
second hour of the day would be six o'clock a.m., and in the winter, a quarter 
past eight. — B. 
24 Bankers, and usurers more especially, had their shops in the Roman 
Forum. 
25 " Cum vadimonium differri jubet." — B, 
26 Augustus built a tliird Forum, because the old one and that of Julius 
Caesar, were not found sufficient for the great increase of business. He 
adorned it with a temple of Mars, and the statues of the most distinguished 
Romans. 
According to Hardouin, this ivory statue was in the eighth region of 
the city. — B. 
28 " Specillum this instrument is mentioned by Celsus, B. vi. c. 6, 
25, et alibi. There has been a considerable discussion among the com- 
mentators respecting the " specillum see Lemaire, vol. iii. pp. 213, 214. 
From the uses to which it was applied by Celsus, we can have little doubt 
upon the subject. Poinsinet and Ajasson employ the equivalent French 
term " eprouvette." — B. 
29 " Mulsum " was the most universally esteemed of all the beverages 
