THE LIVES
OF
THE TWELVE CAESARS
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Lives of the Grammarians -
Lives of the Poets
[699] A.U.C. 801.
[700] A.U.C. 767; being the year after the death of the emperor
Augustus; from whence it appears that Vitellius was seventeen years older
than Otho, both being at an advanced age when they were raised to the
imperial dignity.
[701] He was sent to Germany by Galba.
[702] See TIBERIUS, c. xliii.
[703] Julius Caesar, also, was said to have exchanged brass for gold in
the Capitol, Junius, c. liv. The tin which we here find in use at Rome,
was probably brought from the Cassiterides, now the Scilly islands.
whence it had been an article of commerce by the Phoenicians and
Carthaginians from a very early period.
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