Pompeius, then sole Consul, had surrounded the tribunal with soldiers, who at one time charged the crowd.

Milo was sent into exile at Massilia.
(15) See Book II., 630.
(16) The north-west wind.

Circius was a violent wind from about the same quarter, but peculiar to the district.
(17) This idea that the sun found fuel in the clouds appears again in Book VII., line 7; Book IX., line 379; and Book X., line 317.
(18) This Diana was worshipped by the Tauri, a people who dwelt in the Crimea; and, according to legend, was propitiated by human sacrifices.

Orestes on his return from his expiatory wanderings brought her image to Greece, and the Greeks identified her with their Artemis.

(Compare Book VI., 93.) (19) The horror of the Druidical groves is again alluded to in Book III., lines 462-489.