The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, volume 04: Caligula
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Of TIBERIUS, we have seen that his brothers Drusus andNero fell a sacrifice to these artifices. [391] Tiberius, who was the adopted father of Germanicus. [392] Natriceus, a water-snake, so called from nato, to swim. Theallusion is probably to Caligula's being reared in the island of Capri. [393] As Phaeton is said to have set the world on fire. [394] See the Life of TIBERIUS, c. Lxxiii. [395] His name also was Tiberius. See before, TIBERIUS, c. Lxxvi. [396] Procida, Ischia, Capri, etc. [397] Th...e eagle was the standard of the legion, each cohort of which hadits own ensign, with different devices; and there were also little imagesof the emperors, to which divine honours were paid. [398] See before, cc. Liii. Liv. [399] See TIBERIUS, c. X. ; and note. [400] The mausoleum built by Augustus, mentioned before in his Life, c. C. [401] The Carpentum was a carriage, commonly with two wheels, and anarched covering, but sometimes without a covering; used chiefly bymatrons, and named, according to Ovid, from Carmenta, the mother ofEvander.
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