Helmet and spear

by Alfred John Church

FOOTNOTES:

[18] "Barca" is equivalent to the Hebrew Barak, and means "lightning." We may compare the surname of Boanerges, "Sons of Thunder," given by Christ to the sons of Zebedee. In 247 B.C. he was appointed to the chief command of the forces of Carthage, being then "a very young man," if we may so translate the term adolescentulus which Livy applies to him. This word, however, is very vague. It covers any age from eighteen to upwards of thirty. Cicero, for instance, uses it of Cæsar at the age of thirty-two.