[Frag.  XXII]

1. ¶The AEqui after capturing Tusculum and conquering Marcus [Footnote:  Other accounts give his name as Lucius or Quintus.] Minucius became so proud that, in the case of the Roman ambassadors whom the latter people sent to chide them regarding the seizure of the place, they made no answer at all to the censure but after designating by the mouth of their general, Cloelius Gracchus, a certain oak, bade them speak to it, if they desired aught. (Ursinus, p.373.  Zonaras 7, 17.)

2.  That the Romans on learning that Minucius with some followers had been intercepted in a low-lying, bushy place elected as dictator against the enemy Lucius Quintius, in spite of the fact that he was a poor man and at the time was engaged in tilling with his own hands the little piece of ground which was his sole possession:  for in general he was the peer in valor of the foremost and was distinguished by his wise moderation; though he did let his hair grow in curls, from which practice he received the nickname of Cincinnatus. (Valesius, p.578.  Zonaras 7, 17.)

[Sidenote:  B.C. 449 (a.u. 305)] 2. ¶Affairs of state and camp alike were thrown into confusion.  For the men under arms in their zealous eagerness that no success should attend those who held the power voluntarily surrendered both public and private interests.  The other side, too, took no pleasure in the death of their own members at the hands of opponents, but themselves likewise destroyed in some convenient manner many of the most active persons who espoused the cause of the populace.  As a result no small contention arose between them. (Mai, p.153.  Zonaras, 7, 18.)

3.  For they [Footnote:  This must mean the “military tribunes with consular powers."]reached such a pitch of emulation and next of jealous rivalry of one another that they no longer, as the custom had been, all held office as one body, but each of them individually in turn; and the consequence was by no means beneficial.  Since each one of them had in view his own profit and not the public weal and was more willing that the State should be injured, if it so happened, than that his colleagues should obtain credit, many unfortunate occurrences took place. (Mai, ib.)

4. ¶Democracy consists not in all winning absolutely the same prizes, but in every man’s obtaining his deserts. [Footnote:  Seemingly an excerpt from a speech of one of the optimates, though possibly a remark by Dio himself.] (Mai, p.154.)

[Frag.  XXIII]

1[lacuna]. to have happened as the law of triumphs enjoins, about which Dio Cocceianus writes.  And if it seems to you an irksome thing to delve into books of ancient writers, at all events I will explain cursorily, as best I may, the entertainments pertaining to the triumph.  They cause the celebrator of the triumph to ascend a car, smear his face with earth of Sinope or cinnabar (representing blood) to screen his blushes, fasten armlets on his arms, and put a