[33] This manuscript would be well worthy of being printed, the language in it is excellent.
[34] An eclipse of the sun marked also the moment when Mars overpowered Ilia.
[35] T. Tatius is said to have given him his daughter in marriage, and yet he is already dead in the fourth year after the foundation of Rome.
[36] The ancient Irish legend, as far as it is accessible to me, somewhat differs from the statement, as it is given in the text. It is not Niall the Great who penetrates as far as the Alps, but his successor Dathy, who, A.D. 427, is struck dead by lightning at the foot of the Alps. See Keating, General History of Ireland, transl. by Dermod O’Conor, Lond. 1723, fol. p. 319. M‘Dermot, History of Ireland, Lond. 1820, 8vo. I. p. 411. The accounts of Roman authors concerning Ireland are collected in O’Conor Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores, T. I. Prolegom. p. 1.—Note of the German Editor.
[37] The grammarian whose fragment on the Saturnian verse is here alluded to, is Charisius. Niebuhr transcribed it in the year 1823, from a Neapolitan MS., and his copy is intrusted to Professor Lachmann of Berlin, who is preparing it for publication. From a copy made by O. Müller, Professor Schneidewin, at Gœttingen, has had it printed in a programme of the year 1841, “Flavii Sosipatri Charisii de versu Saturnio commentariolus ex codice Neapolitano nuce primum editus,” and at the same time severely criticised Niebuhr’s remarks on the Saturnian verse. One single glance however at the fragment which is printed in his programme, shows that Müller’s copy is very defective, and it would therefore have been but seemly for Professor Schneidewin to have first instituted more accurate inquiries respecting the contents of Niebuhr’s copy, before he wrote down expressions which indeed cannot injure the memory of Niebuhr; but which do not by any means reflect very favourably on the modesty of their author.—Note of the German Editor.
[38] In the year 1616.
[39] Livy III. 71, 72.
[40] Theod. Ryckii Diss. de primis Italiæ colonis et Ænea, in Luc. Holstenii Notæ et Castigationes in Steph. Byzantium. Lugd. Bat. 1684, fol.
[41] Salmasius was by far less clear-headed than he was.
[42] The aborigines of Macedon were neither Illyrians nor Thracians, but neither more nor less than Pelasgians. Cf. O. Müller’s work on Macedon.