Note 199 — FIRST SECTION.

Of Heliogabalus Lampridius, (Vita Heliog. ch. 26.) relates: Omnes de circo, de theatro, de stadio—meretrices collegit. (He collected all the harlots,—from circus, theatre and stadium—race-course). An old poem (Priapeia, carm. 26,) says:

(The darling of the people, Quintia, so well known in the Great Circus). Comp. Buleng. De Circo ch. 56. Supposing this view to be correct, we might read in the passage of Juvenal, III. 136., as several Critics do, “alta Chionem deducere cella” (to lead Chione down from her lofty “chamber”).