[Footnote 26:  That is, for allowing themselves to suffer it and yet fight for their oppressors.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 27:  For military service.]

[Footnote:28 Known as Mercuriales.  Mercury was the patron of merchants.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 29:  That is, over the senate.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 30:  About 40,000 men.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 31:  That is, like Vetusius, watching the Aequans, who uncrippled were lying in their mountain fastnesses in northern Latium, waiting a chance to renew their ravages.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 32:  Modern Velletri.]

[Footnote 33:  a chair-shaped X .Its use was an insignia first of royalty, then of the higher magistracies.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 34:  Supposed to be the hill beyond and to the right of the Ponte Nomentano.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 35:  Lucius Calpurnius Piso, the historian.]

[Footnote 36:  This fable is of very great antiquity.  Max Mueller says it is found among the Hindus.]

[Footnote 37:  The law which declared the persons of the tribunes inviolate and him who transgressed it accursed.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 38:  Modern Anzio, south of Ostia on the coast of Latium.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 39:  Between Ardea and Aricia.]

[Footnote 40:  The sixth part of the as, the Roman money unit, which represented a pound’s weight of copper.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 41:  Its ruins lie on the road to Terracina, near Norma, and about forty-five miles from Rome.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 42:  The clientes formed a distinct class; they were the hereditary dependents of certain patrician families (their patroni) to whom they were under various obligations; they naturally sided with the patricians.]

[Footnote 43:  Dionysius and Plutarch give an account of the prosecution much more favourable to the defendant.—­D.  O.]

[Footnote 44:  Celebrated annually in the Circus Maximus, September 4th to 12th, in honour of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, or, according to some authorities, of Consus and Neptunus Equestus.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 45:  A >-shaped yoke placed on the slave’s neck, with his hands tied to the ends.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 46:  In a grove at the foot of the Alban Hill.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 47:  There seems to be something wrong here, as Satricum, etc., were situated west of the Via Appia, while Livy places them on the Via Latina.  Niebuhr thinks that the words “passing across ...  Latin way,” should be transposed, and inserted after the words “he then took in succession.”  For the position of these towns, see Map.]

[Footnote 48:  Quintus Fabius Pictor, the historian.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 49:  The ager publicus consisted of the landed estates which had belonged to the kings, and were increased by land taken from enemies who had been conquered in war.  The patricians, having the chief political power, gained exclusive occupation (possessio) of this ager publicus, for which they paid a nominal rent in the shape of produce and tithes.  The nature of the charge brought by Cassius was not the fact of its being occupied by privati, but by patricians to the exclusion of plebeians.]