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This wand Plutarch terms lituos, but lituoi is what Cocceianus Cassius Dio says." Tzetzes, Alleg. Numa dwelt on a hill called Quirinal, because he was a Sabine, but he had his official residence in the Sacred Way and used to spend his time near the temple of Vesta and sometimes even remained on the spot.
Still Suetonius tried to form his taste on older and purer models, and is far removed from the denationalised school of Fronto and Apuleius. The titles of his works are a little obscure. Both, following Suidas, gives the following. peri ton par Ellaesi paidion Biblion, a book of games. This is quoted or paraphrased by Tzetzes, and several excerpts from it are preserved in Eustathius.
Straightway he mounted his horse and, just as he was, dashed heroically forward and passed down into that frightful pit. No sooner had he rushed down the incline than the fissure closed; and the rest of the Romans from above scattered flowers. From this event the name of Curtius was applied also to a cellar. Tzetzes, Scholia for the Interpretation of Homer's Iliad, p. 136, 17, Cp.
Dion tells us that his success was foretold by the astrologers, among whom Tzetzes reckons Apollonius; and he mentions a prediction of Domitian's death which had been put into circulation in Germany. It is true that Dion confirms Philostratus's statement so far as the prediction is concerned, expressing strongly his personal belief in it.
These proposals and a few others of similar nature they put forward not because they expected to carry any of them into effect, for they, if anybody, understood the purposes of the Romans, but in order that failing to obtain their requests they might secure an excuse for complaints, on the ground that wrong had been done them. Tzetzes, on Lycophr. 1378.
The scholars of the present age may still enjoy the benefit of the philosophical commonplace book of Stobæus, the grammatical and historical lexicon of Suidas, the Chiliads of Tzetzes, which comprise six hundred narratives in twelve thousand verses, and the commentaries on Homer of Eustathius, archbishop of Thessalonica, who, from his horn of plenty, has poured the names and authorities of four hundred writers.
Of thirty-two historical writings read and excerpted by Photius in his Bibliotheca, late in the ninth century, nineteen are lost; of several of the Attic orators, Lysias, Lycurgus, Hyperides, Dinarchus, he possessed many more speeches than we have seen. In the twelfth century John Tzetzes and Eustathius apparently had access still to very many lost authors.
On Romulus and Remus Dionysius of Halicarnassus makes remarks in his History, and so do Dio and Diodorus. Tzetzes in Exeg. Hom. After they had set about the building of the city a dispute arose between the brothers regarding the sovereignty and regarding the city, and they got into a conflict in which Remus was killed.
By the aid of springing boards and weights in their hands, the old jumpers covered great distances. Phayllus of Croton is accredited with jumping the incredible distance of 55 feet, and we have the authority of Eustache and Tzetzes that this jump is genuine.
Prior to this great Rome, which Romulus founded on the Palatine mount about the dwelling of Faustulus, another Rome in the form of a square had been founded by a Romulus and Remus older than these. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1232. He founded it around the dwelling of Faustulus. The place had been named Palatium."
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