[Footnote 30: About 40,000 men.—D.O.]
[Footnote 31: That is, like Vetusius, watching the Aequans, who uncrippled were lying in their mountain fastnesses in northern Latium, waiting a chance to renew their ravages.—D.O.]
[Footnote 32: Modern Velletri.]
[Footnote 33: a chair-shaped X .Its use was an insignia first of royalty, then of the higher magistracies.—D.O.]
[Footnote 34: Supposed to be the hill beyond and to the right of the
Ponte Nomentano.—D.O.]
[Footnote 35: Lucius Calpurnius Piso, the historian.]
[Footnote 36: This fable is of very great antiquity. Max Müller says it is found among the Hindus.]
[Footnote 37: The law which declared the persons of the tribunes inviolate and him who transgressed it accursed.—D.O.]
[Footnote 38: Modern Anzio, south of Ostia on the coast of
Latium.—D.O.]
[Footnote 39: Between Ardea and Aricia.]