[Footnote 5: Compare Súetonius, Life of Augustus, chapter 94]
[Footnote 6: See footnote to Book Forty-three, chapter 42.]
[Footnote 7: The senate-house already mentioned in Book Forty, chapter 50.]
[Footnote 8: This word is inserted by Boissevain on the authority of a symbol in the manuscript's margin, indicating a gap.]
[Footnote 9: Inserting with Reimar [Greek: proihemenos], to complete the sense.]
[Footnote 10: See Roscher I, col. 1458, on the Puperci Iulii. And compare
Suetonius, Life of Caesar, chapter 76.]
[Footnote 11: For further particulars about Sex. Clodius and the ager
Leontinus (held to be the best in Sicily, Cicero, Against Verres, III,
46) see Suetonius, On Rhetoric, 5; Arnobuis, V, 18; Cicero, Philippics,
II, 4, 8; II, 17; II, 34, 84; II, 39, 101; III, 9, 22.]
[Footnote 12: Compare here (and particularly with, reference to the plural Spurii) the passage in Cicero, Philippics, III, 44, 114:
Quod si se ipsos illi nostri liberatores e conspectu nostro abstulerunt, at exemplum facti reliquerunt: illi, quod nemo fecerat, fecerunt: Tarquinium Brutus bello est persecutus, qui tum rex fuit, cum esse Romae licebat; Sp. Cassius, Sp. Maelius, M. Manlius propter suspitionem regni appetendi sunt necati; hi primum cum gladiis non in regnum appetentem, sed in regnum impetum fecerunt.]
[Footnote 13: For the figure, compare Aristophanes, The Acharnians, vv. 380-381 (about Cleon):