3. aquam Claudiam indūxit: i.e. he built the aqueduct named after him. It was more commonly called ‘Aqua Appia.’ Between seven and eight miles in length, chiefly under ground, it was the beginning of the magnificent system of water works that distinguished ancient Rome. Four of these old aqueducts still furnish the water supply of modern Rome. Lanciani, Ancient Rome, p. 58.
4. viam Appiam: “the Appian road was made in 312 B.C. to join Rome to Capua, and was afterwards carried as far as Brundisium. This ‘queen of roads,’ as it was called, was a stone causeway, constructed according to the nature of the country, with an embankment either beneath or beside it, and was of such a width that two broad wagons could easily pass each other.”
Q. Fabium Māximum: called Gurges, the son of Q. Fabius Maximus, mentioned in Ch. 8.
6. datus fuisset: cf. questa fuisset, Bk. I, 8.
7. ipsōrum: cf. ipsīs, above.
10. per annōs: cf. per annum, Bk. I, 10.
11. āctum: ‘waged’; agrees with bellum.
Ch. 10.
13. sē … iūnxērunt: cf. coniūnxērunt sē, Bk. I, 19.
15. dēlētae sunt: The Story of the Romans, p. 114.