[Footnote 32: Q. Marcius Crispus. (The MSS. give the form Marcus, but the identity of this commander is made certain by Cicero, Philippics, XI, 12, 30, and several other passages.)]
[Footnote 33: I. e., "The Springs,"—a primitive name for Philippi itself.]
[Footnote 34: Iuppiter Latiaris was the protecting deity of Latium, and his festival is practically identical with the Feriae Latinae. Roscher (II, col. 688) thinks that Dio has here confused the praefectus urbi with a special official (dictator feriarum Latinarum causa) appointed when the consuls were unable to attend. Compare Book Thirty-nine, chapter 30, where our historian does not commit himself to any definite name for this magistrate.]
[Footnote 35: "While carrying a golden Victory slipped and fell" is the phrase in the transcript of Zonaras.]
[Footnote 36: Reading [Greek: aegchon] (as Boissevain) in preference to
[Greek: aegon] or [Greek: eilchon].]
[Footnote 37: Accepting Reiske's interpretative insertion, [Greek: telos].]
[Footnote 38: Among the Fragmenta Adespota in Nauck's Fragmenta
Tragicorum Groecorum this is No. 374.]
[Footnote 39: The names within these parallel lines are wanting in the MS., but were inserted by Reimar on the basis of chapter 34 of this book, and slightly modified by Boissevain.]
[Footnote 40: Both MSS., the Mediceus and the Venetus, here exhibit a gap of three lines.]
[Footnote 41: Owing to an inaccuracy of spelling in the MSS. this number has often been corrupted to "four hundred". The occurrence of "three hundred" in Suetonius's account of the affair (Life of Augustus, chapter 15) assures us, however, that this reading is correct.]