[64] Both Hammonios and Sarapion are common Egyptian names.
[65] This may mean that Cleopatra had gone to some other part of Rome either permanently or temporarily.
[67] The action _februare_ means “to purify,” here used probably to signify the magical expurgation of the person struck and the banishing of the evil influences which prevented fertility.
[68] Compare also the whip carried by a Sixth Dynasty noble named Ipe, Cairo Museum, No. 61, which seems more than a simple fly-flap.
[71] According to Suetonius, the Queen had now been sent back to Egypt, but a letter from Cicero, written in the following month, shows that she was in Rome until then.
[72] The site is near the present Campo dei Fiori.
[76] Some authors state that he cried “Et tu, Brute”; others that the words “my son” were added; while yet others do not record any words at all.
[77] Ferrero has shown that March 19th was a day of _feriae publicae_, when the funeral could not take place. It could not well have been postponed later than the next day after this.
[79] Which, as will be seen, he ultimately attempted to do.
[80] See page 235, where I suggest that Serapion had possibly decided to throw in his lot with Arsinoe, who perhaps claimed the kingdom of Cyprus, and to assist the party of Brutus and Cassius against that of Antony which Cleopatra would probably support.
[81] Found at Tor Sapienza, outside the Porta Maggiore. The best gold and silver coins of Antony, issued by Cnæus Domitius Ahenobarbus, correspond with the bust in all essentials.
[82] It is satisfactory to read that Lucilius remained his devoted friend until the end.
[83] St Paul was also trained in this school.
[84] The elephant’s head I describe from that seen upon the Queen’s vessel shown upon the coins.
[85] The recipe for the preparation of incense of about this period is inscribed upon a wall of the temple of Philæ, and shows a vast number of ingredients.
[88] Josephus says Ephesus, Appian Miletus.
[93] Prof. Ferrero and others have already pointed this out.
[96] The suggestion that an actual marriage took place was first made by Letronne, was confirmed by Kromayer, and was accepted by Ferrero.
[98] Brocardus: Descriptio Terræ Sanctæ, xiii.
[100] Fulvia, it will be remembered (page 255), employed 3000 cavalry as a bodyguard under similar circumstances.