[Footnote 26: Or _Solo_ (according to the Epitome of the one hundred and third Book of Livy).] [Footnote 27: Supplying [Greek: to misein] (as v. Herwerden, Boissevain).] [Footnote 28: The following sentence: "For these reasons, then, he had both united them and won them over" is probably an explanatory insertion, made by some copyist. (So Bekker.)] [Footnote 29: Reading [Greek: proskatastanton] (as Boissevain).] [Footnote 30: The reading here has been subjected to criticism (compare Naber in Mnemosyne, XVI, p. 109), but see Cicero, _De Lege Agraria_ 2, 9, 24 and Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, I^2, 468, 3.] [Footnote 31: The words [Greek: epeidae outoi] are supplied here by Reiske.] [Footnote 32: In regard to this matter see Mnemosyne N.S. XIX, p. 106, note 2. The article in question is by I.M.J. Valeton, who agrees with Mommsen's conclusions (_Staatsrecht_, III, p. 1058, note 2).] [Footnote 33: Reading [Greek: pote] with Boissevain. There is apparently a reference to the year B.C. 100, and to the refusal of Metellus Numidicus to swear to the _lex Appuleia_.] [Footnote 34: Following Reiske's arrangement: [Greek: os mentoi ae aemera aechen, en emellon ...].] [Footnote 35: The verb is supplied by Reiske.] [Footnote 36: Following Reiske's reading: _[Greek: ae ina ta mellonta cholotheiae]_] [Footnote 37: Gaps in the text supplied by Reiske.] [Footnote 38: Gaps in the text supplied by Reiske.] [Footnote 39: Gaps in the text supplied by Reiske.] [Footnote 40: Gaps in the text supplied by Reiske.] [Footnote 41: The suggestion of Boissevain (euthus) or of Mommsen (authicha) is here adopted in preference to the MS. authis (evidently erroneous).] [Footnote 42: Verb supplied by Xylander.] [Footnote 43: Or five hundred miles, since Dio reckons a mile as equivalent to seven and one-half instead of eight stades.] [Footnote 44: The MS. is corrupt. Perhaps Hannibal is meant, perhaps Aeneas.] [Footnote 45: Reading [Greek: epithumian] (with Boissevain).] [Footnote 46: Reading [Greek: enaellonto], proposed in Mnemosyne N.S. X, p. 196, by Cobet, who compares Caesar's Gallic War I, 52, 5; and adopted by Boissevain.] [Footnote 47: Two words to fill a gap are suggested by Bekker.] [Footnote 48: Four words to fill a gap supplied by Reiske.] [Footnote 49: Reading [Greek: paraen] (as Boissevain).] [Footnote 50: Words equivalent to "the more insistent" are easily supplied from the context, as suggested by v. Herwerden, Wagner, and Leunclavius.] [Footnote 51: This is a younger brother of that Ptolemy Auletes who was expelled from Egypt and subsequently restored (see chapter 55), and is the same one mentioned in Book Thirty-eight, chapter 30.] [Footnote 52: This statement of Dio's appears to be erroneous. See Cicero, _Ad Familiares_ I, 7, 10, and Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, 22, 672.] [Footnote 53: Gap in the MS. supplied by Bekker's conjecture.]