[103] This passage will not admit of a translation answerable to the sense of the original. Cicero says the word amicitia (friendship) is derived from amor (love or affection).
[104] This manner of speaking of Jupiter frequently occurs in Homer,
——πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε,
and has been used by Virgil and other poets since Ennius.
[105] Perses, or Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, was taken by Cnæus Octavius, the prætor, and brought as prisoner to Paullus Æmilius, 167 b.c.
[106] An exemption from serving in the wars, and from paying public taxes.
[107] Mopsus. There were two soothsayers of this name: the first was one of the Lapithæ, son of Ampycus and Chloris, called also the son of Apollo and Hienantis; the other a son of Apollo and Manto, who is said to have founded Mallus, in Asia Minor, where his oracle existed as late as the time of Strabo.
[108] Tiresias was the great Theban prophet at the time of the war of the Seven against Thebes.
[109] Amphiaraus was King of Argos (he had been one of the Argonauts also). He was killed after the war of the Seven against Thebes, which he was compelled to join in by the treachery of his wife Eriphyle, by the earth opening and swallowing him up as he was fleeing from Periclymenus.
[110] Calchas was the prophet of the Grecian army at the siege of Troy.