[142] In the lectures of 1826-7, Niebuhr places the end of the first period before the disaster of Caudium, so that the second period is the brilliant one of the Samnites.—Germ. Ed.
[143] They consequently were not annihilated, as Zonaras has it.
[144] This is probably the passage from Dionysius, Mai Excerpt XVI, 6 quoted in R. H. III, p. 415. note 604.—Germ. Edit.
[145] See R. H. III, p. 323.—Germ. Edit.
[146] Reading Ὀμβρίκων instead of ὁμόρων. R. H. III, p. 330, note 438.—Germ. Edit.
[147] In the lectures of 1826-7 N. still mentioned here the battle on the lake of Vadimo, which afterwards he probably rejected, as may be inferred from R. H. III. 332.—Germ. Edit.
[148] See above, p. 152.
[149] Not Clusium, as Livy has it, for this was called in the language of the Umbrians Camers. Polybius has the correct name, and a mere comparison, based on the nature of the locality, might show us that Clusium is out of question.
[150] During the revolutionary wars I had so fully entered into the manner of the different generals, that, in very important cases, I foretold how, for instance, Napoleon would act. People would not believe in my predictions; yet they were generally fulfilled.
[151] For the arguments for this opinion see R. H. III, p. 431, note 647.—G. Ed.