Sabines. Its present name is Rieti.

[722] It does not very clearly appear what rank in the Roman armies
was held by the evocati. They are mentioned on three occasions by
Suetonius, without affording us much assistance. Caesar, like our
author, joins them with the centurions. See, in particular, De Bell.
Civil. I. xvii. 4.

[723] The inscription was in Greek, kalos telothaesanti.

[724] In the ancient Umbria, afterwards the duchy of Spoleto; its modern
name being Norcia.

[725] Gaul beyond, north of the Po, now Lombardy.

[726] We find the annual migration of labourers in husbandry a very
common practice in ancient as well as in modern times. At present,
several thousand industrious labourers cross over every summer from the
duchies of Parma and Modena, bordering on the district mentioned by
Suetonius, to the island of Corsica; returning to the continent when the
harvest is got in.

[727] A.U.C. 762, A.D. 10.

[728] Cosa was a place in the Volscian territory; of which Anagni was
probably the chief town. It lies about forty miles to the north-east of
Rome.

[729] Caligula.