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Niebuhr's lectures on Roman history, Vol. 3 (of 3)

Note 8 — C. JULIUS CÆSAR.

Havilland Le Mesurier Chepmell translation

This unaccountable expression is found in the MSS., and therefore I did not choose to suppress it. Milo was, as is well known, from Lanuvium, and had been adopted into the family of the Annii; but in fact he was sprung from the gens Papia. The epithet Syllanian seems to refer to his marriage with Fausta, the daughter of the dictator Sylla.—Germ. Ed.

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