4) confesses that the Augurate is the supreme object of his wishes.

Pliny is proud to tread in the footsteps of Cicero, (l.iv.Epist.

8,) and the chain of tradition might be continued from history and marbles.] [Footnote 6: Zosimus, l.iv.p.249, 250.

I have suppressed the foolish pun about Pontifex and Maximus.] [Footnote 7: This statue was transported from Tarentum to Rome, placed in the Curia Julia by Caesar, and decorated by Augustus with the spoils of Egypt.] [Footnote 8: Prudentius (l.ii.in initio) has drawn a very awkward portrait of Victory; but the curious reader will obtain more satisfaction from Montfaucon's Antiquities, (tom.i.p.

341.)] [Footnote 9: See Suetonius (in August.c.