Francken, on the other hand, quotes a Scholiast, who says that each hundredth man shot off an arrow.
(23) Agamemnon.
(24) Massilia (Marseilles) was founded from Phocaea in Asia Minor about 600 B.C.

Lucan (line 393) appears to think that the founders were fugitives from their city when it was stormed by the Persians sixty years later.

See Thucydides I.13; Grote, "History of Greece", chapter xxii.
(25) A difficult passage, of which this seems to be the meaning least free from objection.
(26) Murviedro of the present day.

Its gallant defence against Hannibal has been compared to that of Saragossa against the French.
(27) See note to Book I., 506.
(28) Three islands off the coast near Toulon, now called the Isles d'Hyeres.
(29) This was Decimus Brutus, an able and trusted lieutenant of Caesar, who made him one of his heirs in the second degree.
He, however, joined the conspiracy, and it was he who on the day of the murder induced Caesar to go to the Senate House.
Less than two years later, after the siege of Perasia, he was deserted by his army, taken and put to death.
(30) According to some these were the lines which Lucan recited while bleeding to death; according to others, those at Book ix., line 952.
(31) It was regarded as the greatest of misfortunes if a child died before his parent.
(32) It was Brutus who gained the naval victory over the Veneti some seven years before; the first naval fight, that we know of, fought in the Atlantic Ocean..