[Footnote 22:  Perhaps the first bail-bond historically noted.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 23:  That is, refused to accept the plea.]

[Footnote 24:  That is, defended them in court.]

[Footnote 25:  The Temple of Jupiter in the Capitol was divided into three parts:  the middle was sacred to Jupiter, the right to Minerva, the left to Juno.  By “other gods” are meant Terminus, Fides, Juventas.]

[Footnote 26:  Publicola, the father of Brutus.]

[Footnote 27:  That is, personal violence from the young patricians.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 28:  Their control over the auspices was a favourite weapon of the patricians, and one which could naturally be better used at a distance from Rome.  The frequency of its use would seem to argue adaptability in the devotional feelings of the nobles at least, which might modify our reliance upon the statement made above as to the respect for the gods then prevalent in Rome.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 29:  This was the limit of the tribunes’ authority.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 30:  This gate, from which at a later date the Via Appia and the Via Latina started, stood near what is now the junction of the Via S. Gregorio with the Vi di Porta S. Sebastiano.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 31:  By drawing part of the Roman army to the defence of the allied city.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 32:  Two spears were set upright and a third lashed across.  To pass through and under this “yoke” was, among the Italian states, the greatest indignity that could be visited upon a captured army.  It symbolized servititude in arms.—­D.  O.]

[Footnote 33:  This would seem to augur some treachery, unless we are to believe that only the young men taken in the citadel were sent under the yoke, the slaughter took place among the flying besiegers.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 34:  “Quaestors,” these officers are first mentioned in Book II, ch. xii.  In early times it appears to have been part of their duty to prosecute those guilty of treason, and to carry the punishment into execution.]

[Footnote 35:  Evidently a new pretext for delay.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 36:  A little beyond Crustumerium, on the Via Salaria.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 37:  Possibly to one assigned to him officially.  Freese regards the expression as inconsistent with his alleged poverty.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 38:  A curious feature of a triumph were the disrespectful and often scurrilous verses chanted by the soldiers at the expense of their general—­D.O.]

[Footnote 39:  The meaning of this passage is obscure.  Many explanations have been attempted, none of which, to my mind, is quite satisfactory.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 40:  Priest of Quirinus.—­D.  O.]

[Footnote 41:  The law forbade burial within the limits of the city except in certain cases.—­D.O.]

[Footnote 42:  That is, relinquished his right of acting as judge in favour of the people and of popular trial.—­D.O.]