FOOTNOTES
Footnote 1: In the original, lati clavi. The latus clavus was a tunic, or vest, ornamented with a broad stripe of purple on the fore part, worn by the senators; the knights wore a similar one, only ornamented with a narrower stripe. Gold rings were also used as badges of distinction, the common people wore iron ones.
Footnote 2: The duration of Alexander's military career.
Footnote 3: The comitia curiata, or assemblies of the curiae, alone had the power of conferring military command; no magistrate, therefore, could assume the command without the previous order of their assembly. In time, this came to be a mere matter of form; yet the practice always continued to be observed.
Footnote 4: 5s. 31d.
Footnote 5: £1.
Footnote 6: £1614. 11s 8d.
Footnote 7: When the auspices were to be taken from the chickens, the keeper threw some of them food upon the ground, in their sight, and opened the door of then coop. If they did not come out; if they came out slowly; if they refused to feed, or ate in a careless manner, the omen was considered as bad. On the contrary, if they rushed out hastily and ate greedily, so that some of the food fell from their mouths on the ground, this was considered as an omen of the best import; it was called tripudium solistinum, originally, terripavium, from terra, and pavire, to strike.
Footnote 8: These marks of honour were bestowed for having saved the lives of citizens, or for having been the first to mount walls or ramparts.
Footnote 9: £4940 13s.
Footnote 10: £322 18s. 4d.
Footnote 11: £1259 7s. 6d.
Footnote 12: Thucydides seems to be specially referred to.
Footnote 13: The Barcine faction derived its name from Hamilcar, who was surnamed Barca. Hanno appears to have been at the head of the opposite party.
Footnote 14: A.U.C. 526, thirteen years after the conclusion of the first Punic war, being the sixth treaty between the Carthaginians and Romans. The first was a commercial agreement made during the first consulate, in the year that the Tarquins were expelled from Rome; but is not mentioned by Livy. The second is noted by him, lib. vii. 27, and the third, lib. ix. 43. The fourth was concluded during the war with Pyrrhus and the Tarentines, Polyb. V. iii. 25: and the fifth was the memorable treaty at the close of the first war.
Footnote 15: Alluding to the first treaty made in the year that the kings were expelled from Rome.
Footnote 16: The Carpetani have already been mentioned, chap. v. The Oretani, then neighbours, occupied the country lying between the sources of the Baetis and the Anas, or what are now called the Guadalquiver and Guadiana. In a part of Orospeda they deduced their name from a city called Oretum, the site of which has been brought to light in a paltry village to which the name of Oreto still remains.--D'Anville.
Footnote 17: from Paenus, Carthaginian.
Footnote 18: Because Spain was his proper province as consul.
Footnote 19: The ancient name of Portugal.