[Footnote 20: Wooden roofs covered with earth or wet hides, and rolled forward on wheels for the protection of those engaged in battering or mining the walls.—D.O.]
[Footnote 21: That is, the Romans'.]
[Footnote 22: Perhaps because the twenty-four axes of both consuls went to the dictator.—D.O.]
[Footnote 23: Now Palestrina]
[Footnote 24: See Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome": The Battle of
Lake Regillus.]
[Footnote 25: The bound (by the law of debt), from nexo, to join or connect.—D.O.]
[Footnote 26: That is, for allowing themselves to suffer it and yet fight for their oppressors.—D.O.]
[Footnote 27: For military service.]
[Footnote:28 Known as Mercuriales. Mercury was the patron of merchants.—D.O.]
[Footnote 29: That is, over the senate.—D.O.]