[1]: The first chapter has been transposed to serve as Introduction to both the Timoleon and theAemilius Paulus.
[2]: Plutarch suggests the identity of the Latin Aemilius with the Greek αἱμύλιος (winning). Cf. Odyssey, i. 56.
[3]: See the Numa, i. 2 f.
[4]: See the Fabius Maximus, chapters xiv. and xvi.
[5]: In 192 B.C.
[6]: In 191 B.C.
[7]: In 182 B.C.
[8]: 171-168 B.C.
[9]: In 197 B.C. The battle is usually named from a range of hills near Scotussa called Cynoscephalae. See the Flamininus, chapters iii. and iv.
[10]: In 179 B.C.
[11]: In 168 B.C.
[12]: Cicero, De divinatione, I, 103.
[13]: In a lost portion of Book XXIX.
[14]: In a lost portion of Book XXIX.
[15]: In 146 and 133 B.C.
[16]: The battle of Pydna is described by Livy in xliv. 36-41.
[17]: A battle between the Locrians and Crotoniats, at some time in the sixth century B.C.
[18]: It was when the Greeks at Mycale were about to attack the Persians that a rumour came to them of the victory of the Greeks at Plataea over Mardonius (Herodotus, ix. 100).
[19]: See the Coriolanus, iii. 4.
[20]: In 91 A.D.
[21]: Antonius did not get the help he expected from German auxiliaries, and was defeated by Appius Norbanus.
[22]: Chapter v. 4.
[23]: In November, 167 B.C.
[24]: These last were named from a famous Corinthian artist.
[25]: Iliad, xxiv. 525 ff.
[26]: Cf. chapter v. 3.
[27]: The so-called War of Mutina, in 43 B.C.; cf. the Cicero, xlv. 3-5.
[28]: In 142 B.C.
[29]: In 164 B.C.
[30]: See chapter iii. 1-3.
[31]: Seven years after his triumph, 160 B.C.