[49] VI. As I understand--_Sicuti ego accepi_. "By these words he plainly shows that nothing certain was known about the origin of Rome. The reader may consult Livy, lib. i.; Justin, lib. xliii.; and Dionys. Halicar., lib.i.; all of whom attribute its rise to the Trojans." _Bernouf_. [50] Aborigines--_Aborigines_. The original inhabitants of Italy; the same as _indigenae_, or the [Greek: _Autochthones_]. [51]: Almost incredible--_Incredibile memoratu_. "Non credi potest, si memoratur; superat omnem fidem." _Pappaur_. Yet that which actually happened, can not be absolutely incredible; and I have, therefore, inserted _almost_. [52] Prepared with alacrity for there defense--_Festinare, parare_. "Made haste, prepared." "_Intenti ut festinanter pararent_ ea, quae defensioni aut bello usui essent." _Pappaur_. [53] Procured friendships rather by bestowing, etc;--_Magisque dandis, quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant_. Thucyd. ii., 40: [Greek: _Ou paschontes eu, alla drontes, ktometha tous philous_] [54] FATHERS--PATRES. "(Romulus) appointed that the direction of the state should be in the hands of the old men, who, from their authority, were called _Fathers_; from their age, _Senatus_." Florus, i. 1. _Senatus_ from _senex_. "_Patres_ ab honore--appellati." _Livy_. [55] Two magistrates--_Binos imperatores_. The two consuls. They were more properly called _imperatores_ at first, when the law, which settled their power, said "_Regio imperio_ duo sunto" (Cic. de Legg. iii. 4), than afterward, when the people and tribunes had made encroachments on their authority. [56] VII. Almost incredible--_Incredibile memoratu_. See above, c. 6. [57] Able to bear the toils of war--_Laboris ac belli patiens_. As by _laboris_ the labor of war is evidently intended, I have thought it better to render the words in this manner. The reading is Cortius'. Havercamp and others have "simul _ac belli_ patiens erat, in castris _per laborem usu_ militiam discebat;" but _per laborem usu_ is assuredly not the hand of Sallust. [58] Honor and true nobility--_Bonam famam magnamque nobilitatem_. [59] VIII. Very great and glorious--_Satis amplae magnificaeque_. In speaking of this amplification of the Athenian exploits, he alludes, as Colerus observes, to the histories of Thucydides, Xenophen, and perhaps Herodotus; not, as Wasse seems to imagine, to the representations of the poets. [60] There was never any such abundance of writers--_Nunquam ea copia fuit_. I follow Kuhnhardt, who thinks _copia_ equivalent to _multitudo_. Others render it _advantage_, or something similar; which seems less applicable to the passage. Compare c.28: _Latrones_--_quorum_--magna copia _erat_.