Therefore the words of Zonaras II, p. 96, 5, may be attributed to Dio:  “(Romulus) also used red sandals.”

2.  “Shedding ashes from the hearth over the earth, they skillfully traced the prophesies with this wand, as they gazed at the sun and foretold the future.  This wand Plutarch terms lituos, but lituoi is what Cocceianus Cassius Dio says.” (Io.  Tzetzes, Alleg.  Iliadis 1, 28.)

3.  Numa dwelt on a hill called Quirinal, because he was a Sabine, but he had his official residence in the Sacred Way and used to spend his time near the temple of Vesta and sometimes even remained on the spot.  (Valesius, p. 569.)

4.  For since he understood well that the majority of mankind hold in contempt what is of like nature and consorts with them through a feeling that it is no better than themselves, but cultivate what is obscure and foreign as being superior, because they believe it divine, he dedicated a certain lot of land to the Muses [lacuna] (Mai, p. 138.)

5. ¶The gods, as guardians of peace and justice, must be pure of murder; and not listen to or look at anything pertaining to divinity in a cursory or neglectful manner, but must exist enjoying leisure from other affairs and fixing their attention on the practice of piety as the most important act.—­Zonaras, 7, 5 (vol.  II, p. 100).

6.  Dio, Book I:  “This, then, is what Numa thought” (Bekker, Anecd. p. 158, 23.)

7.  Furthermore, also, that they became composed at that time through their own efforts, and took the sacred oath; after which they themselves continued at peace both with one another and with the outside tribes throughout the entire reign of Numa, and they seemed to have lighted upon him by divine guidance no less than in the case of Romulus.  Men who know Sabine history best declare that he was born on the same day that Rome was founded.  In this way, because of both them the city quickly became strong and well adorned:  for the one gave it practice in warfare,—­of necessity, since it was but newly founded,—­and the other taught it besides the art of peace, so that it was equally distinguished in each of these two particulars. (Valesius, p. 569.)

8.  Dio the Roman says that Janus, an ancient hero, because of his entertainment of Saturn, received the knowledge of the future and of the past, and that on this account he was represented with two faces by the Romans.  From him the month of January was named, and the beginning of the year comes in the same month. (Cedrenus, Vol. 1, p. 295, 10, Bekker.)

9.  Book 1, Dio:—­“For in some beginnings, when grasping at ends, the costs that we endure are not unwelcome.” (Bekker, Anecd. p. 161, 3.)

10. (Numa) having lived for a period of three more than eighty years, and having been king forty and three years.—­Zonaras, 7, 5. (Cp.  Haupt, Hermes XIV.)

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1.  Dio, Book 2:  “that their [Footnote:  Probably refers to the people of Alba.] reputation would stand in the way of their growth.” (Bekker, Anecd., p. 139, 12.)