Afterward it is again Scipio who is speaking.
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[303] Both Ennius and Naevius wrote tragedies called "Iphigenia." Mai thinks the text here corrupt, and expresses some doubt whether there is a quotation here at all.
[304] He means Scipio himself.
[305] There is again a hiatus.

What follows is spoken by Laelius.
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It is evident that Scipio is speaking again in cap.

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[313] A name of Neptune.
[314] About seven lines are lost here, and there is a great deal of corruption and imperfection in the next few sentences.
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[316] The _Lex Curiata de Imperio_, so often mentioned here, was the same as the _Auctoritas Patrum_, and was necessary in order to confer upon the dictator, consuls, and other magistrates the _imperium_, or military command: without this they had only a _potestas_, or civil authority, and could not meddle with military affairs.
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[318] Here two pages are missing.
[319] I have translated this very corrupt passage according to Niebuhr's emendation.
[320] Assiduus, ab aere dando.
[321] Proletarii, a prole.
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[328] A great many pages are missing here.
[329] Several pages are lost here; the passage in brackets is found in Nonius under the word "exulto." [330] This and other chapters printed in smaller type are generally presumed to be of doubtful authenticity.
[331] The beginning of this book is lost.

The two first paragraphs come, the one from St.Augustine, the other from Lactantius.
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[335] We have been obliged to insert two or three of these sentences between brackets, which are not found in the original, for the sake of showing the drift of the arguments of Philus.