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Dio's Rome, Volume 3
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66
The cordax was a dance peculiar to Greek comedy and of an appropriately licentious character, resembling in some points certain of the Oriental dances that survive to the present day.
67
Nicopolis, i. e., "City of Victory." The same name was given by Pompey to a town founded after his defeat of Mithridates. (See Book Thirty-six, chapter 50.)
68
An allusion to the second of the two taxes mentioned in Book Fifty, chapter 10.
69
Verb supplied by R. Stephanus.
70
Cobet's interpretation (Mnemosyne X (N.S.), 1882).
71
Compare Pliny, Natural History, XXI, 78.
72
There is an ambiguous [Greek: aùrtuv] here. Only Boissée, however, takes it to mean the Romans. Leonieenus, Sturz and Wagner translate is as "Alexandrians."
73
A reminiscence of the Eumenides of Aischylos.
74
See Glossary (last volume) and also compare the beginning of chapter 24 in Book Thirty-seven.
75
Latin "vexillum caeruleum,"—a kind of flag or banner.
76
The custom was that the magistrates should issue from the town to meet the triumphator and then march ahead of him. Octavius by putting them behind him symbolized his position as chief citizen of the State.
77
These buildings are mentioned together also in the Monumentum Ancyranum (C:L., 1T:, part 2, pp. 780-781).
78
The name of this river is also spelled Cebrus.
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