[55] Varro, de L.L. iv. 36, thinks, on the contrary, that tributum was so called, as being paid by the tribes.
[56] Temple of Diana. Built on the summit of the Aventine mount towards the Tiber. On its brazen pillar were engraved the laws of the treaty, and which were still extant in the time of Augustus.
[57] This is noticed as the first trace of the Agrarian division by Niebuhr, i. p. 161.
[58] His son. Dionysius will have it that he was the grandson. See Nieb. i. p. 367.
[59] Younger families. These had been brought into the senate, as we have seen, by Tarquinius Priscus, and consequently favoured the Tarquinian interest. Nieb. i. p. 372.
[60] To resign. Niebuhr is of opinion that what is said regarding the Commentaries of Servius Tullius, chap. 60, has reference to this.
[61] Hurdle, a mode of punishment in use among the Carthaginians. See Tac. Germ. 12. Similar to the Greek, Καταποντισμός.
[62] His degeneracy—degeneratum. This use of the passive participle is of frequent occurrence in Livy.
[63] The principal sewer—the cloaca maxima. This is attributed to Tarquinius Priscus by several writers. Dio. iii. 67, states that it was he who commenced it. See Plin. H. N. xxxvi. Nieb. i. p. 385.
[64] To do so, and that quickly,—a use of the participles facto and maturato similar to that already noticed in chap. 53, degeneratum.