[Footnote 10:  Evidently the previous reference was in a passage now lost, between Bk. 57, ch. 17, sect. 8, and Bk. 58, ch. 7, sect. 2 of the Codex Marcianus (Boissevain).]

[Footnote 11:  Compare Book Fifty-seven, chapter eight.]

[Footnote 12:  Caesianus and Caesiani are conjectures of Boissevain, the MS. being corrupt.  The person meant is L.  Apronius Caesianus (consul A.D. 39).]

[Footnote 13:  A correction of Casaubon’s for “the army” (MS.), which seems senseless.]

[Footnote 14:  The phrase yields no particular sense and is probably corrupt, but a correction is not easy.  “To state his reasons” has been suggested; and a very slight change in the Greek produces “to eat something” another conjecture.]

[Footnote 15:  Probably from the Bellerophon of Euripides.]

[Footnote 16:  Compare Euripides, Phoenician Maidens, verse 393.]

[Footnote 17:  Dio is in error.  The date was really about ten days earlier.]

DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY

59

The following is contained in the Fifty-ninth of Dio’s Rome.

About Gaius Caesar, called also Caligula (chapters 1-6).  How the Herouem of Augustus was sanctified (chapter 7).  How the Mauritanias began to be governed by Romans (chapter 25).  How Gaius Caesar died (chapters 29, 30).

Duration of time, the remainder of the consulship of Gnaeus Acerronius and Pontius Nigrinus, together with three additional years, in which there were the following magistrates here enumerated.

M. Aquilius C. F. Iulianus, and P. Nonius M. F. Asprenas. (A.D. 38 = a. u. 791 = Second of Gaius.)

C. Caesar Germanicus (II), L. Apronius L. F. Caesianus. (A.D. 39 = a. u. 792 = Third of Gaius, from March 26th.)

C. Caesar (III). (A.D. 40 = a. u. 793 = Fourth of Gaius.)

C. Caesar (IV), Cn.  Sentius Cn.  F. Saturninus. (A.D. 41 = a. u. 794 =
Fifth of Gaius, to Jan. 24th.)

This last year is not counted, because most of the events in it are recorded in the sixtieth book.

(BOOK 59, BOISSEVAIN)

[A.D. 37 (a. u. 790)]

[-1-] This, then, is the tradition about Tiberius.  His successor was Gaius, son of Germanicus and Agrippina, who was known also, as I have stated, by the nicknames of Germanicus and Caligula.  Tiberius had left the empire partly in charge of his grandson Tiberius; but Gaius had his will carried to the senate by Macro and caused it to be declared null and void by the consuls and the rest (with whom he had made previous arrangements) on the ground that the author of the document had not been of sound mind.  This was evidenced by his allowing a mere boy to rule them, who had not yet the right even to enter the senate.  Thus did Gaius at this time separate the lad from imperial office, and later in spite of having adopted him he slew him.  Of no avail was the fact that