[Footnote 11: That is, broke up camp.—D.O.]
[Footnote 12: The people of Rome had been divided in early times into thirty curies: each of these had an officiating priest, called curio, and the whole body was under the presidency of the curio maximus.]
[Footnote 13: The ten leading senators held the office in rotation for five days each, until the consular comitia were held.—D.O.]
[Footnote 14: August 11th]
[Footnote 15: A lesser form of triumph.]
[Footnote 16: The Sibylline books, supposed to have been sold to Tarquinius Superbus by the Sibyl of Cumæ: they were written in Greek hexameter verses. In times of emergency and distress they were consulted and interpreted by special priests (the duumviri here mentioned).]
[Footnote 17: It will be frequently observed that the patricians utilized their monopoly of religious offices to effect their own ends.—D.O.]
[Footnote 18: Curule chairs of office.]
[Footnote 19: That is, recruits.—D.O.]
[Footnote 20: The worst quarter of the city—its White chapel as it were. It lay, roughly speaking, from the Forum eastward along the valley between Esquiline and Viminial Hills.—D.O.]