[Footnote 52: Venus Cloacina (she who cleanses).—D.O.]
[Footnote 53: On two sides of the forum were colonnades, between the pillars of which were tradesmen's booths known as "the Old Booths" and "the New Booths."]
[Footnote 54: That is, to the infernal gods.]
[Footnote 55: See Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome: Verginia."]
[Footnote 56: The civilian togas.—D. O.]
[Footnote 57: Appius Claudius, a member of their order.—D. O.]
[Footnote 58: From the Colline gate.—D.O.]
[Footnote 59: From whose decision an appeal would lie.]
[Footnote 60: The church of S. Caterina de' Fernari now stands within its lines.—D.O.]
[Footnote 61: Evidently this could not apply to a dictator.—D. O.]
[Footnote 62: The name consul, although used by Livy (Bk. I, ch. Ix), was not really employed until after the period of the decemvirs. The title in early use was prætor: it is not definitely known when the name judex was attached to the office.]
[Footnote 63: I question the rendering of this sentence. To read plebis for plebi would very much improve the sense.—D.O.]
[Footnote 64: Twenty years.—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