[Footnote 4:  An emendation by Leunclavius, based on Suetonius, Life of Claudius, chapter 24 (fin.).]

[Footnote 5:  A small gap in the MS. is here filled according to Oddey.]

[Footnote 6:  A line of Homer’s occurring in the Iliad once (XXIV, 369) and in the Odyssey twice (XVI, 72, and XXI, 133).]

[Footnote 7:  Because monopolies of selling them had been conceded for huge sums to avaricious tradesmen.]

[Footnote 8:  This is an error.  Mithridates of Bosporus is the person actually meant.]

[Footnotes 9:  These two quotations are to be found in Kock (Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum) Vol.  III, p. 499.  They are Nos. 487 and 488 of the [Greek:  Adespota Opoteras].  Kock sees no reason for assigning them specifically to the New Comedy (as Meineke has done).]

[Footnote 10:  For a further discussion of this isolated statement (from Suidas) see Mommsen, Staatsrecht, III, p. 912, note 1.]

[Footnote 11:  From an examination of Suetonius, Life of Claudius, chapter 25, it seems likely that Dio wrote “cities” (plural), referring to all the Italian towns.]

[Footnote 12:  “Of charioteers” is undoubtedly the sense.]

[Footnote 13:  The same locus Fucinus that is presently mentioned again.]

[Footnote 14:  “Hail, emperor, we about to die salute thee.”]

[Footnote 15:  This verb is a mere conjecture by one of the editors.  The MS. reading, “he had hoped,” is, of course, corrupt.]

[Footnote 16:  Dio probably says “called” here because the Greek word he uses for “mushrooms” has many other meanings, such as snuff of a wick, scab, knob, etc.]