1. Latīnī: Creighton, p. 28.
2. ex eōrum: sc. populō.
4. pūgnā: see The Story of the Romans, p. 113.
5. dē hīs perdomitīs: ‘a triumph was celebrated on account of their defeat.’
6. rōstrīs: the Rostra or speaker’s platform in the Forum. From it the speaker could command the entire Forum and the Comitium. In 42 B.C. it was removed and set up again at the west end of the Forum. Another rostra was constructed about the same time at the opposite end, in front of the new Temple of Divus Iulius.
7. Alexandrō Macedone: Alexander the Great.
Ch. 8.
9. Samnītas: a Greek form of the Accusative. The Samnites were offshoots of the Sabines, occupying the hilly country between the Nar, the Tiber, and the Anio. Their bravery made them the most formidable rival of Rome in Italy. In 290 B.C. they were subjected to Rome.
12. Q. Fabiō Māximō: called Rulliānus. This Fabius was five times consul and dictator twice. He triumphed over the Samnites, Marsi, Gauls, and Etrurians. He was the great-grandfather of Q. Fabius Maximus, the hero of the Second Punic war.
14. sē absente: ‘while he (Papīrius) was absent.’