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3.8
As prefect, Lampadius was disturbed by frequent outbreaks, the greatest of all being when a mob, composed of the dregs of the populace, by throwing fire-brands and fire-darts upon his house near the Baths of Constantine would have burned it, had not his friends and neighbours quickly rushed to the spot and driven them off by pelting them with stones and tiles from the house-tops.
3.9
He himself, terrified by such violence in the first stages of a growing tumult, fled to the Mulvian bridgeSee Livy, xxvii. 51, 2, for the first reference to this bridge (207 B. C.). — which the elder ScaurusSo also Pseud.-Aur. Vict., De Viris III. 72, 8. This is M. Aemilius Scaurus, censor in 110 B.C., but the Pons Mulvius (Ponte Molle) must have been built as early as 220 B.C., to carry the Via Flaminia across the Tiber, and Scaurus restored it. Mulvius is unknown. is said to have built—as though to wait there for the cessation of the tumult, which a serious cause had aroused.
