[27] Probably the same as the Hebrew Shofetim, i.e., Judges.
[28] The inscription upon this column, or, at any rate, a very ancient copy of it, is still preserved in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.
[29] Barca is the same as the Hebrew word Barak, "lightning."
[30] Gallicus ager.
[31] The pass of the Alps which Hannibal crossed was probably the Graian Alps, or Little St. Bernard. See note "On the Passage of Hannibal across the Alps" at the end of this chapter.
[32] At this time the Consuls entered upon their office on the Ides of March. It was not till B.C. 153 that the consulship commenced on the Kalends of January.
[33] See the map in the "Smaller History of Greece," p. 117.
[34] The story that Archimedes set the Roman ships on fire by the reflected rays of the sun is probably a fiction, though later writers give an account of this burning mirror.
[35] Upon his tomb was placed the figure of a sphere inscribed in a cylinder. When Cicero was Quæstor in Sicily (B.C. 75), he found his tomb near one of the gates of the city, almost hid among briers, and forgotten by the Syracusans.
[36] See the "Smaller History of Greece," p. 214.