[73] Ulpian’s fragm. V, 8.
[74] In the canton of Schwytz the country people were in the same manner divided into four quarters, to which two were afterwards added.
[75] I have omitted to elucidate this in my history.—Nieb.
[76] This expression puzzles Livy very much at the battle of Fidenæ. The old annalist had, classibus certare; yet Livy mistook the meaning of this for fleet, and on this doubts whether on the narrow Tiber a contest with fleets could have taken place. But it means nothing else but a fight with heavy armed men.
[77] Sixty stivers made a dollar of Cologne, the value of which is estimated at 23 silver groats (Silbergroschen). An as is therefore something less than 7 Prussian pennies 6⁹⁄₁₀ths.—Germ. Edit.
- One Prussian dollar = 30 Silv. gr.
- One Silver gr. = 12 pennies.
- The dollar (thaler) = 2s. 9d.
- The as = ²⁵³⁄₄₀₀ penny Sterling.—Transl.
[78] The Abbé Sieyes, said, it is true, La minorité a toujours tort.
[79] Lyon, Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, Lond. 1821, vol. iv. p. 162, gives that notice. The two tribes which inhabit the town, are the Beni Walid and the Beni Wasid; yet according to his statement, however, it is precisely in war time that the gate in the wall is closed.—Germ. Edit.
[80] A palm is about 9 inches.
[81] See above p. 88. It has already been remarked there that the following disquisition dates from the year 1828, and is therefore to be considered as the ultimate result of Niebuhr’s researches on this subject.—Germ. Edit.