Note 57 — TRANSLATION

17.[57] Ἀλέξανδρος is the reading of the codex, and is retained in the editions of Müller and Dindorf. No associate of Octavius bearing this name is elsewhere mentioned, and since the statement is here made that he returned to his home at Pergamum, Müller suggests that Apollodorus is here intended to be represented. See note 55, chap. 16 with appended references. Piccolos has altered the reading to Ἀπολλόδωρος (see his note, Nicolas de Damas, Vie de César, Paris 1850, p. 85). It is possible that Nicolaus, through the use of Augustus’ memoirs, actually came upon some such name as Alexander; if not, the reading ‘Alexander’ is attributable to an error of the excerptor. Apollodorus is described as being old at the time of the trip to Apollonia by Suet., Aug., 89.