Virgile. Publius Virgilius Maro (B.c

1. 23. d'un monstre odieux. Tiberius Claudius Nero (b.c. 42 — A.D. 37), adopted by Augustus.

1. 25. pour être regretté, in order to be regretted, i.e. by comparison with Tiberius.

1. 30. nie renommée: Mad. de Staël appears to mean Ischia or Capri, well-known islands off the Bay of Naples; but the island whence Brutus and Cassius really started was the island of Nesis, off Baiœ, which is too small and little-known to be called "renommée."