the colour of the party to which they belonged. See before, c. xviii.,
and TIBERIUS, c. xxxvii.

[462] In the slang of the turf, the name of Caligula's celebrated horse
might, perhaps, be translated "Go a-head."

[463] Josephus, who supplies us with minute details of the assassination
of Caligula, says that he made no outcry, either disdaining it, or
because an alarm would have been useless; but that he attempted to make
his escape through a corridor which led to some baths behind the palace.
Among the ruins on the Palatine hill, these baths still attract
attention, some of the frescos being in good preservation. See the
account in Josephus, xix. 1, 2.

[464] The Lamian was an ancient family, the founders of Formiae. They
had gardens on the Esquiline mount.