FOOTNOTES:
[1] This and the succeeding selection from the works of Prescott are included by kind permission of Messrs. Lippincott & Co.
[2] This and other selections from the works of Motley are included by kind permission of Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
[3] Miltiades claimed descent from Æacus, the fabled son of Jupiter, father of Peleus and Telamon, and grandfather of Achilles and Ajax the Greater, the chiefs of the Greek heroes before Troy.—G. T. F.
[4] Peisistratos was the tyrant of Athens, the overthrow of whose family, about 510 B.C., laid the foundation of the Athenian democracy.—G. T. F.
[5] The leadership in a league or confederation, as to-day it may be said Prussia possesses the “hegemony” of Germany.—G. T. F.
[6] Jugurtha was a Numidian prince, who at one time served in the Roman armies. He afterward usurped the Numidian kingdom in Africa, and, after a tedious war, was subjugated by the Romans, brought to Rome, and starved in his dungeon.—G. T. F.
[7] Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (Minor), the final destroyer of Carthage.—G. T. F.
[8] A Roman magistrate, inferior to consul, appointed to rule a province.—G. T. F.
[9] The war against Jugurtha.