6. =per quīnōs diēs=: ‘through five days each.’ CH. 3. 8. =rēx=: predicate Nominative. =bellum=: emphatic by position as well as by the use of _quidem_. “The statement that during the forty-three years of Numa’s reign Rome enjoyed uninterrupted peace cannot be looked upon as anything but a fiction or a dream.” 11. =cōnsuētūdine proeliōrum=: ‘because of their habit of (waging) war.’ =iam … putābantur=: ‘were beginning to be thought’; note the force of the Imperfect. 12. =in decem=: Livy I, XIX, says _in duodecim mēnsēs_. 13. =aliquā= ＝ _ūllā_. =cōnfūsum=: ‘confused’; modifies _annum_ and is modified by _prius_. 14. =morbō=: _i.e._ a natural death as contrasted with a death by violence. CH. 4. 16. =huic successit=: lit. ‘to this one succeeded’ ＝ ‘his successor was’; note the emphasis. =hīc bella reparāvit=: in allusion to the former activity of Romulus in that direction. 17. =Albānōs=: Alba Longa, the most ancient town in Latium, is said to have been built by Ascanius, and to have colonized Rome. After its destruction by Tullus Hostilius it was never rebuilt. Its inhabitants were removed to Rome. At a later time the surrounding country was studded with the splendid villas of the Roman aristocracy. Livy, Bk. I, XXII-XXV, gives an account of the conquest of the Albans. =mīliāriō=: the Roman milestones were set up at intervals of 1000 paces, 5000 Roman feet, on the military roads. They gave the distance from the place from which the measurement was made, its name, the name of the person who erected the stone, and the name of the reigning emperor. The phrase means ‘twelve miles from Rome.’ 18. =aliī … aliī=: ‘the one … the other.’ Eutropius uses _alius_ with the meaning of _alter_. 20. =adiectō Caeliō monte=: lit. ‘the Caelian Hill having been annexed’ ＝ ‘by annexing the Caelian Hill’; cf. _conditā cīvitāte_, Ch. 2. 21. =fulmine ictus=: lit. ‘having been struck by lightning.’ =ārsit=: _ārdeō_. CH. 5. 22. =ex fīliā=: ‘on his daughter’s side.’ Note peculiarity of _fīlia_, H. 80, 2 (49, 4); M. 33, N. 2; A. & G. 36, _e_; G. 29, 4; B. 21, 2, _e_. PAGE 9. 1. =Iāniculum=: Mons Ianiculus, on the opposite side of the Tiber, was united to the city by the Pons Sublicius. =cīvitātem=: this city, afterwards called Ostia, was situated on the left bank of the river, about sixteen miles from Rome. It was used as a port for Rome until the time of the Empire. 3. =morbō periit=: cf. _morbō dēcessit_, Ch. 3. CH. 6.