[53] The text of these last sentences is so corrupt that it is impossible to be sure of having rightly represented the meaning of Polybius.
[54] These raids on the territory of Megalopolis, however, did not lead to open war till B.C. 202. See 16, [16].
[55] Caepio was commanding in Bruttium, Servilius in Etruria and Liguria. Livy, 30, 1.
[56] Sophanisba, the daughter of Hasdrubal son of Gesco. Livy, 29, 23; 30, 12, 15.
[57] Some words are lost from the text.
[58] παρενέβαλλε, which Schweig. translates castra locavit: but though the word does sometimes bear that meaning, I cannot think that it does so here. Scipio seems to have retained his camp on the hill, only two and a half miles’ distant, and to have come down into the plain to offer battle each of the three days. Hence the imperfect.
[59] The war with Antiochus, B.C. 218-217. See 5, [40], [58]-71, [79]-87.
[60] A civil war, apparently in a rebellion caused by his own feeble and vicious character. It seems to be that referred to in 5, 107.
[61] Homer, Iliad, 4, 437.
[62] Homer, Iliad, 4, 300.