[193] ἐν ταῖς συγκρίσεσιν. But it is very doubtful what the exact meaning of this word is. Alcaeus seems to be the Epicurean philosopher who, among others, was expelled from Rome in B.C. 171. See Athenaeus, xii. 547, who however calls him Alcios. See also Aelian, V. Hist. 9, 12.
[195] She was the daughter of C. Papirius Carbo, Coss. B.C. 231.
[196] The following pedigree will show the various family connexions here alluded to:—
| Publius Cornelius Scipio ob. in Spain B.C. 212. | |||||
| │ | |||||
| P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus | = | Aemilia, sister of Lucius Aemilius Paulus | = | Papiria | |
| ob. B.C. 187. | │ | ob. B.C. 162. | ob. B.C. 160. | │ | |
| │ | ┌───────────┬───────────┐ | ||||
| │ │ │ │ | Quintus Fabius Maximus adopted by Q. F. M. | Scipio Aemilianus B.C. 185 | two daughters | ||
| ┌────────┬──────────────┐ | |||||
| P. Scipio Nasica = Cornelia(1). | Cornelia(2)= Tib. Sempronius Gracchus | Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus ob. s. p. adopted his cousin who became Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus ob. B.C. 129. | |||
[197] τῶν ἐπίπλων, the ornamenta of a bride, consisting of clothes, jewels, slaves, and other things, in accordance with her station. See Horace, Sat. 2, 3, 214. For the three instalments in which it was necessary to pay dowries, see Cicero ad Att. ii. 23; 2 Phil. § 113.
[198] ποιοῦντος τὴν διαγραφὴν seems a banker’s term for “paying,” i.e. by striking off or cancelling a debt entered against a man. The only other instance of such a use seems to be Dionys. Hal. 5, 28.
[199] Of his two younger sons one died five days before his Macedonian triumph, the other three days after it. See Livy, 45, 40.
[200] The two sisters were both named Aemilia; the elder was married to Q. Aelius Tubero, the younger to M. Porcius Cato, elder son of the Censor. The daughters were prevented from taking the inheritance of their mother’s property by the lex Voconia (B.C. 174), in virtue of which a woman could not be a haeres, nor take a legacy greater than that of the haeres, or of all the haeredes together. The object of the law was to prevent the transference of the property of one gens to another on a large scale. It was evaded (1) by trusteeships, Gaius, 2, 274; Plutarch, Cic. 41: (2) by the assent of the haeres, Cic. de Off. 2, § 55. And it was relaxed by Augustus in favour of mothers of three children, Dio Cass. 56, 10. See also Cicero de Sen. § 14; de legg. 2, 20; de Rep. 3, 10; Verr. 2, 1, 42; Pliny, Panegyr. 42; Livy, Ep. 41.
[201] That is, the morning from daybreak till about ten or eleven. The salutationes came first, and the law business in the third hour.