[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.]