7. supellectilis: Nominative, the usual form is supellex.
9. Āfricānus: later Māior was added to his name to distinguish him from the Scipio Africanus who destroyed Carthage, 146 B.C.
11. quam coeperat: cf. quam vēnerant, Bk. II, 28.
Book IV
Ch. 1.
12. Macedonicum: sc. bellum.
Ch. 2.
13. Philippum: Philip V, king of Macedonia, began to reign 220 B.C., was defeated by Flamininus at Cynoscephalae 197 B.C., and died 179 B.C. The Story of the Romans, p. 137; Creighton, p. 47.
15. rem prōsperē gessit: in 196 B.C., at the meeting of the Isthmian games, Flamininus caused a herald to proclaim, “that the senate and the people of Rome, and their commander, Titus Quinctius, having subdued Philip and the Macedonians, now restored the Corinthians, Phocians, Locrians, Euboeans, Thessalians, Achaeans, etc., to their freedom and independence, and to the enjoyment of their own laws.”
19. quaterna mīlia: sc. lībrārum; note the force of the distributive.