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 268 pliny's fattiral histoey. [Book III. pa M. Varro^, tlie Emperor Augustus^ now deified, Yarro Atacinus"*, Antias*, Hyginus^, L. Vetus^, Pomponius Mela*, of which Pliny makes considerable use. Of this also only a few fragments are left. His life has been written by Cornehus Nepos, Plutarch, and Aurehus Victor, ^ M. Vipsanius Agi'ippa, the distinguished partisan of Augustus, to whose niece MarceUa he was married, but he afterwards divorced her for Juha, the daughter of Augustus by Scribouia, and the widow of Marcellus. He distinguished himself in Gaul, at Actium, and in Hlyria. He constructed many public works at Rome, and among them the Pan- theon ; he also built the splendid aqueduct at Nismes. He died suddenly in liis 51st year. His body was buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus, who pronovmced his funeral oration. He wrote memoh-s of his own life. PUny often refers to the " Commentarii " of Agrippa, by which are meant, it is supposed, certain official Hsts drawn up by him in the measm'ement of the Roman world under Augustus. His map of the world is also mentioned by Phny in c. 3 of the present Book. ^ ggg g^d of B. ii. 3 From Servius, Suetonius and Plutarch we learn that Augustus wrote Memoirs of his Life, in thirteen books ; from Suetonius, that he com- posed a Summary of the Empire (which was probably that referred to in the above note on Agrippa) ; and from QuintUian, Aldus GeUius, and PHny, B. xviii. c. 38, that he pubUshed Letters written to liis grandson Caius. GraUia Narbonensis, in which province he was bora, B.C. 82. Of his "Argonautica," his " Cosmograpliia" (probably the same with his "Iter"), his " Navales Libri," and his Heroic and Amatory Poems, only a few fragments now exist. Of liis life notliing whatever is kno^vn. ^ Valerias Antias. See end of B. ii. ^ C. Jiihus Hyginus, a native of Spam, and frecdman of Augustus, by whom he was placed at the Palatine Library. He lived upon terms of intimacy with Ovid. He wrote works on the sites of the cities of Italy, the Nature of the Gods, an accoimt of the Penates, an accovmt of Virgil (probably the same as the work called " Commentaries on Virgil"), on the PamUies of Trojan descent, on Agriculture, the " Propempticon Oinnse," the Lives of Illustrious Men (quoted by John of Salisbiu-y in liis " Poly- craticon "), a book of Examples, and a work on the Art of War, also meil- tioned by John of Sahsbury. A book of Pables, and an Astronomical Poem, in four books, are ascribed to hun, but they are probably pro- ductions of a later age. 7 L. Antistius Vetus, Consul with Nero, a.d. 55. While command- ing in Germany he formed the project of connecting the MoseUe and the Saone by a canal, thus establishing a communication between the Medi- terranean and the Northern Ocean. Nero having resolved on his death, he anticipated his sentence by opening his veins in a Avarm bath. His mother-in-law Sextia, and his daughter Pollentia, in a similar manner perished with liim. of Algesii-as, and probably floiu'ished in the reign of Claudius. He was
 * P. Terentius Varro, surnamed Atacinus, from the Atax, a river of
 * He was born, it is supposed, at Tingentera, or Cingentera, on the bay