Lūsitānīs: they lived a little south of the Gallaeci.
10. P. Scīpiō … Numantīnīs: from the capture of the city of Numantia he received the name Numantīnus.
12. dē Āfricā: i.e. dē Karthāgine.
Ch. 20.
13. Aristonīcō: he was a natural son of Eumenes II of Pergamus. Upon the death of his brother Attalus, who left his kingdom to the Romans, Ch. 18, he claimed the throne. At first he met with considerable success.
15. P. Licinius Crassus: he was consul for the year 131 B.C. He was a good orator and jurist.
25. carcere: the Mamertine prison at the foot of the Capitoline Hill. This was the only prison in Rome in early times. In it most of the famous captives of the Romans were strangled. It consisted of an upper and lower chamber. The term Tullianum sometimes applied to the prison as a whole is more properly restricted to the lower dungeon. Sallust in the ‘Catiline’ gives an impressive picture of the lower vault in which Jugurtha perished. “There is,” he says, “in the prison a chamber named the Tullianum, about twelve feet below the surface of the earth. It is surrounded by walls, and covered by a vaulted roof of stone; but its appearance is repulsive and fearful, because of the neglect, the darkness, and the stench.”
27. diem obierat: lit. ‘he had met his day’ ＝ ‘he died.’
Ch. 21.
29. quae nunc manet: Eutropius is in error. The Carthage of his time was founded by Augustus. He was carrying out the plans of Julius Caesar in this.