[290] “Cedant arma togæ, concedat laurea linguæ.”
[291] “Written,” because many of them were never spoken.
[292] Augustus.
[293] For some account of the evil repute of those who dealt in these insurances, see vol. ii., Life of Cato Major, ch. 21.
[294] Plutarch uses the equivalent Greek word for ædile, but we know that Cicero went to Sicily as quæstor.
[295] Antigonus, surnamed the one-eyed, King of Asia, was the son of Philip of Elymiotis. He was one of the generals of Alexander the Great.
[296] Hor. Carm. ii. 19.
[297] This was the holy robe of Athena, carried in procession through Athens at the Panathenaic festival. See Smith’s ‘Dict. of Antiq.,’ s.v.
[298] A poisonous plant of the convolvulus kind.
[299] An engine described by Amm. Marcell. 23. 4. 10, and also in Smith’s ‘Dict. of Antiq.’ art. ‘Helepolis.’ See also Athen. v. p. 206. d. for a description of these machines.