The History of Rome, Book V eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 917 pages of information about The History of Rome, Book V.

The History of Rome, Book V eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 917 pages of information about The History of Rome, Book V.

22.  V. XII.  Greek Literati in Rome

Notes for Chapter VI

1.  V. IV.  Aggregate Results

2.  The impression of the first address, which Pompeius made to the burgesses after his return, is thus described by Cicero (ad Att. i. 14):  -prima contio Pompei non iucunda miseris (the rabble), inanis improbis (the democrats), beatis (the wealthy) non grata, bonis (the aristocrats) non gravis; itaque frigebat-.

3.  IV.  X. Regulating of the Qualifications for Office

4.  V. V. New Projects of the Conspirators

5.  V. VI.  Pompeius without Influence

6.  IV.  IX.  Government of Cinna, iv.  X. Punishments Inflicted on Particular Communities

7.  IV.  XII.  Oriental Religions in Italy

8.  V. V. Transpadanes

9.  IV.  X. Cisalpine Gaul Erected into a Province

10.  V. IV.  Cyprus Annexed

11.  IV.  VI.  Violent Proceedings in the Voting

12.  V. IV.  Cyprus Annexed

Notes for Chapter VII

1.  IV.  I. The Callaeci Conquered

2.  IV.  IX.  Spain

3.  V. I. Renewed Outbreak of the Spanish Insurrection

4.  V. I. Pompeius in Gaul

5.  V. I. Indefinite and Perilous Character of the Sertorian War

6.  V. V. Conviction and Arrest of the Conspirators in the Capital

7.  V. I. Pompeius Puts and End to the Insurrection

8.  IV.  II.  Scipio Aemilianus

9.  There was found, for instance, at Vaison in the Vocontian canton an inscription written in the Celtic language with the ordinary Greek alphabet.  It runs thus:  —­segouaros ouilloneos tooutious namausatis eiorou beileisamisosin nemeiton—.  The last word means “holy.”

10.  An immigration of Belgic Celts to Britain continuing for a considerable time seems indicated by the names of English tribes on both banks of the Thames borrowed from Belgic cantons; such as the Atrebates, the Belgae, and even the Britanni themselves, which word appears to have been transferred from the Brittones settled on the Somme below Amiens first to an English canton and then to the whole island.  The English gold coinage was also derived from the Belgic and originally identical with it.

11.  The first levy of the Belgic cantons exclusive of the Remi, that is, of the country between the Seine and the Scheldt and eastward as far as the vicinity of Rheims and Andernach, from 9000 to 10,000 square miles, is reckoned at about 300,000 men; in accordance with which, if we regard the proportion of the first levy to the whole men capable of bearing arms specified for the Bellovaci as holding good generally, the number of the Belgae capable of bearing arms would amount to 500,000 and the whole population accordingly to at least 2,000,000.  The Helvetii with the adjoining

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