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1 ↑ The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, available in many editions and translations.

2 ↑ Regularly "Paeonians" in the Greek authors.

3 ↑ Berenice I was actually the stepsister of Ptolemy I (ca. 367–282 B.C.). She became his legal wife in accord with the customary Egyptian practice of marriage between brother and sister in the royal family.

4 ↑ March 17, 180.

5 ↑ I.e, to the North and Baltic seas.

6 ↑ October, 180.

7 ↑ The temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill.

8 ↑ By the late second century, the title Caesar conferred by the reigning emperor carried with it a claim to the succession. I have used "Caesar" regularly in preference to a less exact "heir."

9 ↑ Married to Lucilla in 164, Verus died in 169.

10 ↑ The ludi Capitolini, oldest of the Roman festivals, celebrated on October 15. Plutarch Rom. 25.

11 ↑ One of the ubiquitous Cynic beggar philosophers.

12 ↑ The confusion concerning Perennis' sons is Herodian's: he had two sons, both of whom were presumably involved in the total plot, though Herodian follows the fate of only one.

13 ↑ The rites of the spring festival in honor of Cybele, goddess of fertility, began on March 15.

14 ↑ These heaven-sent statues derive from the Palladium, a sacred image of Athena sent down by Zeus to the founders of Troy.

15 ↑ Ovid Met. 10.155 ff.

16 ↑ Cf. Livy 29.10; Ovid Fasti 4.305 ff.; Seneca Frag. 80; Suetonius Tib. 2.

17 ↑ This temple, in the Forum of Peace, was begun by Vespasian in 71 to commemorate the capture of Jerusalem.

18 ↑ According to legend, the true Palladium was sent down from heaven by Zeus to Dardanus, founder of Troy, or to his descendant Ilus. Brought to Italy by Aeneas, also according to legend, it was placed in the temple of Vesta to protect the city of Rome.

19 ↑ Cf. Dio 73–15.3. Also A. Lampridius Vita Commod..

20 ↑ Originally a colossal statue of Nero, for whose head Vespasian substituted a head of the Sun. Suetonius, Vespasian 18.

21 ↑ Actually the night of December 31, 192.