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[192] 'Burning the Capitol' was a proverb of utter iniquity.

[193] In the war between Sulla and Marius, 83 B. C.

[194] The capital town of the Volscians. This early history is
told in the first book of Livy.

[195] 507 B. C.

[196] 83 B. C. The interval is really 425 years.

[197] This, according to Pliny, was Sulla's own saying.

[198] Consul in 69 B. C. He took the title of Capitolinus.
[199] On the monument which details his exploits Augustus says
that he restored the Capitol at immense cost without
inscribing his name on it.

[200] Flavius Sabinus.

[201] Cp. chap. 70.

[202] Cp. i. 20, 87; ii. 12.

[203] Consul for November and December. His colleague,
Caecilius Simplex, was on the other side (see chap. 68).

[204] The dress of the worshippers of the Egyptian goddess
Isis, who considered woollen clothes unclean.

[205] A flight of steps leading down from the Capitol to the
Forum. On them the bodies of criminals were exposed after
execution.

[206] Mucianus.