Cicero, de Divinatione, I. xliv. 100.
5 in annalibus, e.g. in Livy, v. 15.
6 crevisset, perh. partly due to the excessive snows of the preceding winter, 397 B.C.
7 profugisse. Livy says he was treacherously made prisoner.
8-9 ex fatis . . . haberent, i.e. the Etruscan Libri fatales, Books of fate, cf. the Libri Sibyllini = the Roman Books of fate.
10 lapsu et cursu suo = in its natural course and stream.
14 deductio = draining (lit. a leading off). The tunnel then cut still carries off the superfluous waters of the lake.
20 sexennio post = six years after, i.e. 390 B.C. For the 10 years’ siege of Veii, cf. the Trojan War.
Reference. Plutarch, Camillus, iii.-v. Livy, v. 15.