[228] The islands were called also Vulcaniae and Aeoliae.
[229] Strabo reckons 8 stades to a mile, thus making the number of stades 4280. The exact calculation by Polybius’s reckoning is 4458-1/3 stades. The miles are Roman miles of 5000 feet; therefore, by Strabo’s calculation, the stade is 625 feet, by Polybius’s 600 feet.
[230] Strabo, however, supports the measurement of Artemidorus—6500, explaining that Polybius is taking some practical measurement of a voyage, not the shortest.
[231] Homer, Odyss. 4, 485.
[232] Probably in February, the month usually devoted by the Senate to legationes.
[233] Since B.C. 195 up to B.C. 154 the two divisions of Spain had been entrusted to Praetors.
[234] Livy, Ep. 48. Provocatorem barbarum tribunus militum occidit.
[235] τῶν ἐκ συγκλήτου καὶ τῆς γερουσίας. The same distinction occurs in 10, 18, and seems to refer to the two bodies known as the Hundred and the Gerusia. See Bosworth Smith’s Carthage and the Carthaginians, p. 27.
[236] The envoys first report to the Gerusia. Appian, Pun. 91.
[237] Phameas was afterwards persuaded by Massanissa to join the Romans. Livy, Ep. 50.