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1 He means the Acroceraunian chain in Epirus, mentioned in B. iii.
2 See B. iii. c. 9.
3 He was one of the companions of Ulysses, fabled by Homer and Ovid to have been transformed by Circe into a swine.
4 μυρσἰνη, was its Greek name.
5 See B. xxv. c. 59.
6 See B. xii. c. 2. Ovid, Fasti, B. iv. 1. 15, et seq., says that Venus concealed herself from the gaze of the Satyrs behind this tree.
7 Either this story is untrue, or we have a right to suspect that some underhand agency was employed for the purpose of imposing on the superstitious credulity of the Roman people.
8 Or Social War. See B. ii. c. 85.
9 Near the altar of Census, close to the meta of the Circus.
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- Harper's, Cloacīna
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ROMA
- Smith's Bio, Cloaci'na
- Smith's Bio, Mu'rcia, Mu'rtea
- Smith's Bio, Venus
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