5) The account given by Titus Livius of the resolution of the Roman senators at the taking of Rome by the Gauls.
6) Agriculturists, or tillers of the ground, are declared consuls and dictators by the Romans.
7) The Lake of Thrasymene takes fire.
8) The philosopher Anaxarchus bit off his tongue and spat it in the face of the tyrant.
9) In a combat between Aëtius and Attila, the blood of the soldiers killed and wounded flowed in such torrents that the dead bodies were swept away by it.
10) Ten Roman virgins, at the head of whom was Clelia, after having been sent as hostages to the king Porsenna, returned to Rome by swimming across the Tiber.
11) Æschylus killed by a tortoise dropped upon his head by an eagle.
12) In the school of Pythagoras the disciples kept silence during the space of five years.
13) A grapestone caused the death of Anacreon; and the senator Fabius was choked by a hair in his milk.
14) Mutius-Scævola burned his hand to shew his fortitude.