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268 pliky's KATTJEAL HISTOBY. [Book III, 
pa\ M. Varro^, the Emperor Augustus^ now deified, Yarro 
Atacinus'*, Antias^, Hyginus^, L. Vetus'', Pomponius Mela*, 
of which PUny makes considerable use. Of this also only a few fragments 
are left. His life has been written by Cornehus Nepos, Plutarch, and 
Aurehus Yictor. 
^ M. Vipsanius Agrippa, the distinguished partisan of Augustus, to 
whose niece Marcella he was married, but he afterwards divorced her 
for Julia, the daughter of Augustus bj Scribonia, and the widow of 
Marcellus. He distinguished himself in Gaul, at Actium, and in lUyria. 
He constructed many pubhc works at E-ome, and among them the Pan- 
theon ; he also built the splendid aqueduct at Nismes. He died suddenly 
in his 51 st year. His body was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus, 
who pronounced his funeral oration. He wrote memoirs of his own hfe. 
Pliny often refers to the " Commentarii " of Agrippa, by which are meant, 
it is supposed, certain official Hsts drawn up by him in the measurement 
of the Roman world under Augustus. His map of the world is also 
mentioned by Pliny in c. 3 of the present Book. ^ ggg QYid of B. ii. 
3 From Servius, Suetonius and Plutarch we learn that Augustus wrote 
Memoirs of his Life, in thirteen books ; from Suetonius, that he com- 
posed a Summary of the Empire (which was probably that referred to in 
the above note on Agrippa) ; and from Quintilian, Aulus GreUius, and Pliny, 
B. xviii. c. 38, that he pubhshed Letters written to his grandson Oaius. 
* P. Terentius Varro, surnamed Atacinus, fr^om the Atax, a river of 
OraUia Narbonensis, in which province he was born, B.C. 82. Of his 
"Argonautica," his " Cosmographia" (probably the same with liis "Iter"), 
his " Navales Libri," and his Heroic and Amatory Poems, only a few 
fragments now exist. Of his life nothing whatever is known. 
^ Valerias Antias. See end of B. ii. 
^ C. Julius Hyginus, a native of Spain, and freedman of Augustus, by 
whom he was placed at the Palatine Library. He lived upon terms of 
intimacy with Ovid. He wrote works on the sites of the cities of Italy, 
the Nature of the G-ods, an account of the Penates, an account of Yirgil 
(probably the same as the work called " Commentaries on Virgil"), on the 
Families of Trojan descent, on Agriculture, the " Propempticon Cinnse," 
the Lives of Illustrious Men (quoted by John of Salisbury in his " Poly- 
craticon "), a book of Examples, and a work on the Art of War, also men- 
tioned by John of Sahsbury. A book of Fables, and an Astronomical 
Poem, in four books, are ascribed to him, but they are probably pro- 
ductions of a later age. 
7 L. Antistius Vetus, Consul with Nero, A.r. 55. While command- 
ing in Germany he formed the project of connecting the Moselle and the 
Saone by a canal, thus establishing a communication between the Medi- 
terranean and the Northern Ocean. Nero having resolved on his death, 
he anticipated his sentence by opening his veins in a warm bath. His 
mother-in-law Sextia, and his daughter Pollentia, in a similar manner 
perished with him. 
s He was born, it is supposed, at Tingentera, or Cingentera, on the bay 
of Algesiras, and probably flourished in the reign of Claudius. He waa 
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