[Footnote 63: I question the rendering of this sentence. To read plebis for plebi would very much improve the sense.--D.O.]
[Footnote 65: The misfortunes of the previous campaign were supposed to exert an influence on the present one.--D.O.]
[Footnote 66: The cavalry at this period wore no defensive armour, and carried only an ox-hide buckler and a light lance.--D.O.]
[Footnote 67: A victorious general who had entered the city could not afterward triumph.--D.O.]
[Footnote 68: It was first necessary for these to be adopted into plebeian families, as none but plebeians were eligible.--D.O.]
[Footnote 69: It stood about where the Arch of Gallienus now stands.--D.O.]
[Footnote 70: Each legion was divided into ten cohorts.--D.O.]
[Footnote 71: A not unusual method of forcing the charge, as not only military honour but religious sentiment forbade the loss of the standards.--D. O.]
[Footnote 72: About twenty miles from Rome in the Alban Mountains. The village of Ariccia occupies the site of the ancient citadel.--D. O.]
[Footnote 73: Quadruplatores were public informers, so called because they received a fourth part of the fine imposed: also used in a general sense of those who tried to promote their interests by underhand means.]
[Footnote 74: This is one of the best of Livy's books. The story of Verginia and of the deposition and punishment of the decemvirs is unexcelled in historical narrative.--D.O.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Roman History, Books I-III, by Titus Livius