[12] Brutus, 15.

[13] Mommsen remarks that he could not have retired to Utica till after it fell into the possession of the Romans.

[14] De Senectute, 14.

[15] 'Ye who keep watch over the person of the king, hasten straightway to the leafy places, where the copsewood is of nature's growth, not planted by man.'

[16] 'Like one playing at ball in a ring, she tosses about from one to another, and is at home with all. To one she nods, to another winks; she makes love to one, clasps another. Her hand is busy here, her foot there. To one she gives a ring to look at, to another blows a kiss; with one she sings, with another corresponds by signs.'

[17] The reading of the passage here adopted is that given by Munk.

[18] De Senectute, 6.

[19]

Etiam qui res magnas manu saepe gessit gloriose,

Cujus facta viva nunc vigent, qui apud gentes solus praestat,