[1] Even if this work and some treatises on grammar should be ascribed to a later Ennius, which is not proved, the works of the great poet were sufficiently various.
[2] Ancient customs and men cause the Roman republic to prosper.
[3] Whom no one with the sword could overcome nor by bribing.
[4] This line occurs in a context which is worth translating. “I do not ask gold for myself, and do not you offer me a ransom: not waging the war like hucksters, but like soldiers, with the sword, not with gold, let us strive for our lives. Let us try by our valor whether our mistress Fortune wishes you or me to rule.”
[5] Aulus Gellius, xii, 4.
[6] Quoted by Cicero, De Deor. Nat. II, 35, 89.
[7] Rudens, 160-173.
[8] Persa, 204-224.
[9] Phormio, 784 ff. Translated by M. H. Morgan.
[10] Quoted by Pliny, N. H. xxix, 7, 14.