[167] ἐπιλάβηται injecerit manum, the legal form of claiming a slave.
[169] Saguntum of course is south of the Iber, but the attack on it by Hannibal was a breach of the former of the two treaties. Livy (21, 2) seems to assert that it was specially exempted from attack in the treaty with Hasdrubal.
[170] From ch. 21.
[171] βασιλεύς. The two Suffetes represented the original Kings of Carthage (6, [51]). The title apparently remained for sacrificial purposes, like the ἄρχων βασιλεύς, and the rex sacrificulus. Polybius, like other Greek writers, calls them βασιλεῖς. Infra, 42. Herod. 7, 165. Aristot. Pol. 2, 8.
[172] A promontory in Bruttium, Capo del Colonne.
[173] This division of the world into three parts was an advance upon the ancient geographers, who divided it into two, combining Egypt with Asia, and Africa with Europe. See Sall. Jug. 17; Lucan, Phars. 9, 411; Varro de L. L. 5, § 31. And note on 12, [25].
[174] The arae Philaenorum were apparently set up as boundary stones to mark the territory of the Pentapolis or Cyrene from Egypt: and the place retained the name long after the disappearance of the altars (Strabo, 3, 5, 5-6).
[175] For Polybius’s calculation as to the length of the stade, see note on 34, [12].
[176] Livy, 21, 25, calls it Tannetum, and describes it only as vicus Pado propinquus. It was a few miles from Parma.