Dio's Rome, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 244 pages of information about Dio's Rome, Volume 6.

Dio's Rome, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 244 pages of information about Dio's Rome, Volume 6.

22.  Dio in Book 11:  “Regulus paid no heed to them until the Carthaginians permitted him to do so.” (Bekker, Anecd. p. 140, 20.  Zonaras, 8, 15.)

[Sidenote:  B.C. 251 (a.u. 503)] 23.  Dio in Book 11:  “For it is neither my duty nor that of any other upright man to give up aught that pertains to the public welfare.” (Ib. p. 165, 23.)

24.  In Book 11:  “Any one else, wishing to console himself for the disaster which had happened in his own case, would have exalted the prowess of the enemy.” (Ib. p. 165, 30.)

[Sidenote:  B.C. 249 (a.u. 505)] 25.  The second part of the augury is transmitted to us by Dio Cassius Cocceianus, who says that they keep tame birds which eat barley, and put barley grains in front of them when they seek an omen.  If, then, in the course of eating the birds do not strike the barley with their beaks and toss it aside, the sign is good; but if they do so strike the grain, it is not good. (Io.  Tzetzes, Exegesis of Homer’s Iliad, p. 108, 2.)

[Sidenote:  B.C. 244 (a.u. 510)] 26.  He [sc.  Mamilcar] thought it was requisite for a man who wished to accomplish anything by secret means not to make the matter known to anyone at all.  There was no one, he believed, so self-possessed as to be willing, when he had heard, merely to observe operations and be silent.  Just the reverse was true:  the more strongly a man might be forbidden to mention anything, the greater would be his desire to speak of it, and thus one man learning the secret from another with the understanding that he was the only person to know it would reveal the story. [Footnote:  Section 26 may refer to Hamilcar Barca’s plans for seizing Mount Eryx.] (Mai, p. 540.  Cp.  Diodorus, 24, 7.)

27.  In Book 11 of Dio:  “He feasted the populace.” [Footnote:  Boissevain thinks that No. 27 may concern the banqueting of the populace during Metellus’s triumph.  Others have other opinions.] (Bekker, Anecd. p. 133, 24.)

28.  In Book 11 of Dio:  “You attack even such friends as have been guilty of any error, whereas I pardon even my enemies.” (Ib. p.171, 29.)

29.  In Book 12 of Dio:  “By the one process [Footnote:  Perhaps from the speech of Regulus to the senators.] he might have become to a certain extent estranged from you.” (Ib. p.124, 4.) 30.  In Book 12 of Dio:  “Some are dead, and others who were deserving of some notice, have been captured.” [Footnote:  This may be likewise from the speech of Regulus and be said of the Carthaginian leaders.] (Ib. p. 133,25.)

[Frag.  XLIV]

1.  For the Ligurians occupy the whole shore from Etruria up to the Alps and as far as Gaul, according to Dio’s statement. (Isaac Tzetzes, on Lycophron, 1312.)

[Sidenote:  B.C. 236 (a.u. 518)] 2.  The Romans at first sent Claudius to the Corsicans and gave him up.  This was after he had made terms with them, but his countrymen, who claimed that the fault in breaking the compact rested on him and not on themselves, had waged war upon them and subdued them.  When the Corsicans refused to receive him, the Romans drove him out. (Valesius, p.593.  Zonaras, 8, 18.)

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