History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . at the time of Polybius (vi. 39), or eight, taldng iuto account thereductions which caused sixteen asses to be reckoned to the denarius instead of ten. Ctesardoubled it, ten asses (Suet., Cces, 26). It was then under Domitian thirteen asses = gths of adenarius a day = twenty-five denarii a month, or 300 a year, instead of 225. [The denariuswas nearly equal to a franc.—EdP\ - Each legion had its chest for savings; Saturninus, of whom we shall speak furlher, hadtaken these deposits as a pledge to make s
History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians; . at the time of Polybius (vi. 39), or eight, taldng iuto account thereductions which caused sixteen asses to be reckoned to the denarius instead of ten. Ctesardoubled it, ten asses (Suet., Cces, 26). It was then under Domitian thirteen asses = gths of adenarius a day = twenty-five denarii a month, or 300 a year, instead of 225. [The denariuswas nearly equal to a franc.—EdP\ - Each legion had its chest for savings; Saturninus, of whom we shall speak furlher, hadtaken these deposits as a pledge to make sure of the fidelity of the soldiers. ^ Familiare numen Minerva; (Quintilian, Inst, orat., x. 1). Cf. Suet., 15. * Pliny, X. Ixxvi. ; Suet., Bom., 20. Silius Italiens, Vunir., iii. (iLS .«y. ; Quintilian, hut. orat., ix., in Proœm. 2 700 THE AND THE ELAVII, 14 To Hti US yet written liis Life of Ayricola, aud Pliny the Younger, whohad also attained the pra?torsliip in 93, was in possession ofhis full renown. Thus in this reio^n wt meet with the most. Km TomV) of a Child victorious in the contebC in Eloi|Ueiice and AI iisic. eminent poets of the second order, a famous prose-writer, and anauthor of genius who was already meditating his scathing find also celebrated juiiscimsults. Palfurius and Juvenal reproaches with unduly multiplying the royal After his prtetorship Tacitus withdrew from Itome. aud he was still absent in it in consequence of banishment :- This has been asserted, but everything is opposed tothe supposition, and Borghesi (vii. 322) thinks that according to custom Tacitus, at theexpiration of his pra-torship, received the command of a legion or the government of an imperialprovince, probably Belgica, where his father had bne-n procurator, and wliere he hnishedcollecting materials for his work de Moribus Germania-. Discovered in 1871 in one of the towers of the jwrtu >ialaria. The young l
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