[13] Festus v. Tarpeiæ.—Ed.
[14] The mode of writing in periods among the Romans commences with Cato, and was particularly elaborated by C. Gracchus, who is on the whole to be considered as the father of Roman prose. The periodology has, as well as the hexameter, most likely been engrafted on the Roman language from the Greek.
[15] IX, 13.
[16] John James Mascov, born 1689 at Dantzic, lived as professor of history at Leipsic, where he died 1761.—Translator.
[17] Whenever Gaius stands upon his own legs, he has no substantiated historical statements.
[18] It was a necessity to reduce history, which had become too voluminous, to abstracts. Such were also the tables of Cornelius Nepos after the example of Apollodorus.
[19] These authors were not mentioned by Niebuhr in his lectures. The brief notice which is given has been taken from the few MS. leaves of his papers which I was allowed to make use of. Editor.
[20] V. p. 352 c. Alm.
[21] Lapus is a Florentine short name for Jacob.
[22] The first excellent translation of a Greek author into Latin is that of Herodian, by Angelus Politian.