184.] [Footnote 3: Plutarch, _Cato minor_ 39.

Cato was expected to land at the commercial docks _below_ the Aventine (see below), where the senate and magistrates were awaiting him, but with his usual rudeness rowed past them to the navalia.] [Footnote 4: _Aen._ viii.363.Possibly Virgil meant to put this dwelling on the site of the future Regia, just below the Palatine and between it and the Forum.

See Servius _ad loc._] [Footnote 5: The modern visitor would cross by the Ponte Rotto, which is in the same position as the ancient bridge, just below the Tiber island.] [Footnote 6: Livy v.

54.] [Footnote 7: The Fratres Arvales.] [Footnote 8: For navigation of the river above Rome see Strabo p.
235.] [Footnote 9: Horace _Od_.i.2.After a bad flood in A.D.15 proposals were made for diverting a part of the water coming down the Tiber into the Arnus, but this met with fatal opposition from the superstition of the country people (Tacitus, _Ann_.i.

79).