Note 176 The first parricide at Rome was L. Ostius, after the second Punic war, (Plutarch, in Romulo, tom. i. p. 54.) During the Cimbric, P. Malleolus was guilty of the first matricide, (Liv. Epitom. l. lxviii.)]

---

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 44