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The editor continues detailed textual and interpretive notes for Vestalis, covering examples from classical literature, genealogical status claims, and the meaning of phrases about military action and praise.
=27. FLVMINEA ... VNDA.= *Flumineus* does not occur elsewhere in the *Tristia* or *Ex Ponto*; *fluminea ... aqua* at *Fast* II 46 & 596. =27. VITELLIVS.= This Vitellius is presumably one of the four sons of Publius Vitellius, grandfather of the emperor. Suetonius wrote of the sons, Aulus, Quintus, Publius, and Lucius, that they were 'quattuor filios amplissimae dignitatis cognomines ac tantum praenominibus distincto…