[1716] in Eutrop II 370-5.
[1717] de bell Goth 366-72.
[1718] epitoma rei militaris I 3.
[1719] rei milit I 5, senos pedes vel certe quinos et denas uncias [has not ad fallen out before senos?]. In a law of 367, cod Th VII 13 § 3 in quinque pedibus et septem unciis.
[1720] tunc. When? From I 28 it might be inferred that he looks back to the first Punic war. But I do not think so.
[1721] necdum enim civilis pars florentiorem abduxerat iuventutem. So I 7 civilia sectantur officia.
[1722] The assertion that Martius calor has not subsided (I 28), accepted by Seeck I 413, seems to me rhetorical bravado. Much more likely is the view (ib 414) that the improved standard of recruits in the fifth century was due to prevalence of barbarians.
[1723] Seeck II 88 foll. Hence army service was called militia armata.
[1724] mulomed I 56 §§ 11-13.
[1725] si saepius et cum moderatione animalia sedeantur. For sederi cf § 35 sub honesto sessore, Spart Hadr 22 § 6, cod Th IX 30 § 3.