did you do this thing?  What injury had you received from him?” the other cried out:  “I happen to be not Etruscan but Roman; and three hundred others of like mind with me who are now hunting thee to slay thee.”  This he had spoken falsely; and, with his right hand thrust into the fire, he gazed on Porsenna as though another were suffering:  and when the prince enquired:  “Why do you look fixedly upon us?” he said:  “Reflecting how I erred in failing to slay thee and in thy stead killed one whom I thought Porsenna.”  And when Porsenna exclaimed:  “You shall now become my friend!” Mucius rejoined:  “If thou becom’st a Roman.”  Porsenna admiring the man for his uprightness becomes a friend to the Romans and checks the tide of battle. (Tzetzes, Chiliades, VI, 201-223.)

(Cp.  Scholia on John Tzetzes’s Letters in Cramer’s Anecd.  Oxon., vol.  III, p.360, 30:  “Clusinus was the name of Porsenna’s secretary, according to what Dio says”; and Zonaras, 7, 12:  “Drawing his sword he killed his secretary, who was sitting beside him and was similarly arrayed.”)

4.  Dio’s 4th Book:  “And he [Footnote:  Porsenna.] presented to the maiden [Footnote:  Claelia] both arms (or so some say) and a horse.” (Bekker, Anecd. p.133, 8.)

5.  After this the Tarquins endeavored on several occasions, by forming alliances with tribes bordering on Roman dominions, to recover the kingdom; but they were all destroyed in the battles save the sire, who, moreover, was called Superbus (or, as a Greek would say, Proud).  Subsequently he found his way to Cyme of Opicia and there died.  Thus the careers of the Tarquins reached a conclusion.  And after their expulsion from the kingdom consuls, as has been stated, were chosen by the Romans.  One of these was Publius Valerius, who became consul four times,—­the one to whom also the name Poplicola was applied. (Zonaras 7, 12 sq.  Cp.  Haupt, Hermes XIV.)

6.  And the management of the funds they assigned to others in order that the men holding the consular office might not possess the great influence that would spring from their having the revenues in their power.  Now for the first time “stewards” began to be created and they called them quaestors.  These in the first place tried capital cases, from which fact they have obtained this title,—­on account of their questionings and on account of their search for truth as the result of questionings.  But later they acquired also management of the public funds and received the additional name of Stewards ([Greek:  tamiai]).  After a time the courts were delivered over to different persons, while these officials were managers of the funds. (Zonaras 7, 13.  Cp.  Haupt, Hermes, XIV.)

7.  Dio’s 4th Book:  “And they provided them [Footnote:  Probably a reference to the quaestors.] with separate titles besides in general making very different provision for them in the different cases.”  (Bekker, Anecd. p.133, 16.)