[3]The Latin word is fauces, i.e. jaws, etymologically the same word as the hause of our Lakeland, which means a narrow pass.
[4]Greenidge, Roman Public Life, p. 105.
[5]With the exception of the southern Samnites, who joined Hannibal after Cannæ.
[6]This was Fabius Maximus, who has given his name to the familiar phrase, “Fabian tactics.”
[7]Seeley’s Life of Stein, II. 422.
[8]Plutarch’s Lives of Cato the Elder and Æmilius Paullus, which can be read in a translation, will give examples of this better type of education.
[9]In Plutarch’s Life of him, especially chaps, v. and vi., where Plutarch is plainly reproducing the evidence of an eyewitness.
[10]He came of an old Roman patrician family.
[12]Georgics I, 463 foll.