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THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS

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FOOTNOTES:



[639] Veii; see the note, NERO, c. xxxix.

[640] The 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 nobilis of botany, the Daphne of the Greeks, is the bay-tree, indigenous in Italy, Greece, and the East, and introduced into England about 1562. Our laurel is a plant of a very different tribe, the Prunes lauro-cerasus, a native of the Levant and the Crimea, acclimated in England at a later period than the bay.

[641] The Temple of the Caesars is generally supposed to be that dedicated by Julius Caesar to Venus genitrix, from whom the Julian family pretended to derive their descent. See JULIUS, c. lxi.; AUGUSTUS, c. ci.


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