2 iustissime. ‘The final issue of the war confirmed the justice and the wisdom of the reforms planned by the Gracchi and by Livius Drusus.’—Ihne.
7 Latinarum, sc. Feriarum, the solemn festival conducted by the Consuls on the Alban Mount.
10 Asculo. Asculum (Ascoli), chief town of Picenum. The opening and closing scene of the war.
[B.] Advice of the Sabellian father to his sons.
‘Vivite contenti casulis et collibus istis,
O pueri,’ Marsus dicebat et Hernicus olim
Vestinusque senex, ‘panem quaeramus aratro,
Qui satis est mensis: laudant hoc numina ruris,
Quorum ope et auxilio gratae post munus aristae
Contingunt homini veteris fastidia quercus.