(32) ENDNOTES: (1) Reading adscenso, as Francken (Leyden, 1896).
(2) So: "The rugged Charon fainted, And asked a navy, rather than a boat, To ferry over the sad world that came." (Ben Jonson, "Catiline", Act i., scene 1.) (3) I take "tepido busto" as the dative case; and, as referring to Pompeius, doomed, like Cornelia's former husband, to defeat and death.
(4) It may be remarked that, in B.C.46, Caesar, after the battle of Thapsus, celebrated four triumphs: for his victories over the Gauls, Ptolemaeus, Pharnaces, and Juba.
(5) Near Aricia.

(See Book VI., 92.) (6) He held no office at the time.
(7) The tribune Ateius met Crassus as he was setting out from Rome and denounced him with mysterious and ancient curses.
(Plutarch, "Crassus", 16.) (8) That is, the liberty remaining to the people is destroyed by speaking freely to the tyrant.
(9) That is, the gold offered by Pyrrhus, and refused by Fabricius, which, after the final defeat of Pyrrhus, came into the possession of the victors.
(10) See Plutarch, "Cato", 34, 39.
(11) It was generally believed that the river Alpheus of the Peloponnesus passed under the sea and reappeared in the fountain of Arethusa at Syracuse.

A goblet was said to have been thrown into the river in Greece, and to have reappeared in the Sicilian fountain.

See the note in Grote's "History of Greece", Edition 1863, vol.ii., p.

8.) (12) As a serpent.