[1]: In 183 B.C.
[2]: He was consul for the second time in 163 B.C. The year of his death is unknown. This story is told and commented on by Cicero in De divinatione i. 18, 36; ii. 29, 62.
[3]: Probably Ptolemy VI., surnamed Philometor, king of Egypt 181-146 B.C.
[4]: See the Nicias, viii. 3.
[5]: Princeps Senatus.
[6]: Presumably at the induction of Tiberius into office.
[7]: Cf. Livy. xxxviii. 57.
[8]: Cf. Polybius, xxxii. 13.
[9]: In the campaign of 146 B.C., which ended with the destruction of Carthage.
[10]: Consul in 137 B.C.
[11]: In 180-179 B.C.
[12]: In 321 B.C. Cf. Cicero De off., iii. 30, 109.
[13]: By Tiberius and his friends.
[14]: Scipio was sent against Numantia in 134 B.C., and took and destroyed the city in the following year, in which year also Tiberius was killed.
[15]: Probably a political pamphlet in the form of a letter. Cf. Cicero, de div. ii. 29, 62.
[16]: That is, in Roman money, nine sestertii, equivalent to about twenty pence, or forty cents.
[17]: In 133 B.C.
[18]: Cf. the Cato Major, xxii. 5.
[19]: For the story of Blossius, cf. Cicero, De am. 11. 37; Valerius Maximus, iv. 7. 1.
[20]: The pretender to the throne of Attalus Philometor (xiv. 1). He was defeated and taken prisoner by the Romans in 130 B.C.
[21]: In a lost biography.
[22]: Odyssey, i. 47 (Athena, of Aegisthus).
[23]: One of the lost biographies.
[24]: In 126 B.C.
[25]: De div. 1. 26, 56
[26]: Fregellae revolted, and was destroyed in 125 B.C.
[27]: For the year 123 B.C., ten years after Tiberius had entered upon the same office.
[28]: An allusion to the rival demagogues in the Knights of Aristophanes.
[29]: See the Tiberius Gracchus, ad fin., and cf. the Romulus, xxvii. 4. f.
[30]: In 129 B.C., six years before Caius became tribune.
[31]: See chapter viii. 2.
[32]: Blass compares the laughter of the doomed suitors in Odyssey, xx. 346 ff.—the fatuous smile of men whose fate is sealed, though they are unaware of it.
[33]: Cf. Cicero, Brutus, 58, 211.
[34]: The formal decree of martial law: consul videret ne quid respublica detrimenti caperet (Cicero, In Cat. 1. 2, 4).
[35]: Opimus restored the temple of Concord which had been built by Camillus (see the Camillus, xlii. 4.)