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THE race of the Caesars became extinct in Nero; an event prognosticated by various signs, two of which were particularly significant.
Formerly, when Livia, after her marriage with Augustus, was making a visit to her villa at Veii,
Veii; see the note, NERO, c. xxxix.
an eagle flying by, let drop upon her lap a hen, with a sprig of laurel in her mouth, just as she had seized it. Livia gave orders to have the hen taken care of, and the sprig of laurel set; and the hen reared such a numerous brood of chickens, that the villa, to this day, is called the Vila of the Hens.
The laurel groveThe conventional term for what is most commonly known as,
The Laurel, meed of mighty conquerors,
And poets sage. --Spenser's Faerie Queen.
is retained throughout the translation. But the tree or shrub which had this distinction among the ancients, the Laurus nobilts of botany, the Daphne of the Greeks, is the bay tree, indigenous in Italy, Greece an( the East, and introduced into England about 1562. Our l