14. =parvīs … rēbus=: ‘although up to this time the Roman state was small.’ 16. =quae= ＝ _eae lēgiōnēs_. =duce L. Fūriō=: lit. ‘L. Furius being the leader’ ＝ ‘under the leadership of L. Furius.’ 17. =quī esset optimus=: ‘whoever was the best.’ 18. =sē … obtulit=: ‘offered himself.’ =Valerius=: see _The Story of the Romans_, p. 111. 20. =commissā … pūgnā=: _cf. conditā cīvitāte_, Bk. I, 2. 21. =ālīs et unguibus=: cf. _fulmine_, Bk. I, 4. 25. =annōrum=: by a law passed in 181 B.C., the legal age of the consulship was fixed at forty-three. There were exceptions made, as in the case of Cn. Pompeius, who was elected consul when he was thirty-six years old. PAGE 18. CH. 7. 1. =Latīnī=: Creighton, p. 28. 2. =ex eōrum=: sc. _populō_. 4. =pūgnā=: see _The Story of the Romans_, p. 113. 5. =dē hīs perdomitīs=: ‘a triumph was celebrated on account of their defeat.’ 6. =rōstrīs=: the Rostra or speaker’s platform in the Forum. From it the speaker could command the entire Forum and the Comitium. In 42 B.C. it was removed and set up again at the west end of the Forum. Another rostra was constructed about the same time at the opposite end, in front of the new Temple of Divus Iulius. 7. =Alexandrō Macedone=: Alexander the Great. CH. 8. 9. =Samnītas=: a Greek form of the Accusative. The Samnites were offshoots of the Sabines, occupying the hilly country between the Nar, the Tiber, and the Anio. Their bravery made them the most formidable rival of Rome in Italy. In 290 B.C. they were subjected to Rome. 12. =Q. Fabiō Māximō=: called _Rulliānus_. This Fabius was five times consul and dictator twice. He triumphed over the Samnites, Marsi, Gauls, and Etrurians. He was the great-grandfather of Q. Fabius Maximus, the hero of the Second Punic war. 14. =sē absente=: ‘while he (Papīrius) was absent.’ 16. =capitis damnātus=: lit. ‘having been condemned of the head’ ＝ ‘having been condemned on a capital charge’; cf. our expression ‘capital punishment.’ =sē vetante=: cf. _parvīs … rēbus_, Ch. 6. _Sē_; the antecedent is _Papīrius_. CH. 9. 19. =T. Veturiō … cōnsulibus=: cf. _C. Fabiō … cōnsulibus_, Bk. I, 16. 20. =vīcērunt=: at the battle of the Caudine Forks, a narrow pass east of Campania. The commander of the Samnites was Gavius Pontius. See _The Story of the Romans_, p. 113. =sub iugum=: the yoke was formed by sticking two spears in the ground and fastening a third on top. To pass under the yoke was a sign of subjection, and is equivalent to our expression ‘laying down arms.’ Livy, Bk. IX, VI, describes the process. 21. =pāx … solūta est=: a Roman general could not make peace with the enemy without the ratification of the senate and the people. 22. =ipsīs=: see note on _ipsōs_, Bk. I, 20. =facta fuerat=: see note on _facta fuisset_, Bk. I, 8. PAGE 19.