17. =pācem ignōbilem fēcit=: but fearing the reckoning that awaited him at home for concluding peace, he denied before the senate the agreement he had made with the people of Numantia. The total incompetency of Pompeius and of his successor, Mancinus, and the demoralization of the army, caused the war to drag on with disgrace and disaster for three years. Creighton, p. 49. 20. =Mancīnum hostibus trādī=: they refused to receive him, as the senate knew they would. 24. =cōnsul factus=: sc. _est_; this was in 134 B.C. He was then at the legal age for the consulship. 25. =mīlitem=: ‘the soldiers’; a collective noun. PAGE 43. 4. =reliquam … accēpit=: “A senatorial commission was shortly afterwards sent to Spain, and the provinces were reorganized. Spain gradually became exceedingly prosperous, and, despite the guerilla warfare ever waged by the half-subdued native tribes, it was the most flourishing and best organized country in the Roman dominions.” Mommsen, p. 215. CH. 18. 6. =Attalus=: the kingdom of Attalus consisted of Lydia, Phrygia, Mysia, and Caria, four states on the coast of Asia Minor. CH. 19. 9. =Callaecīs=: generally written _Gallaecī_. They were a people inhabiting the northwestern part of Spain, bordering on the Atlantic. They were the most uncivilized people of Spain. =Lūsitānīs=: they lived a little south of the Gallaeci. 10. =P. Scīpiō … Numantīnīs=: from the capture of the city of Numantia he received the name _Numantīnus_. 12. =dē Āfricā=: _i.e. dē Karthāgine_. CH. 20. 13. =Aristonīcō=: he was a natural son of Eumenes II of Pergamus. Upon the death of his brother Attalus, who left his kingdom to the Romans, Ch. 18, he claimed the throne. At first he met with considerable success. 15. =P. Licinius Crassus=: he was consul for the year 131 B.C. He was a good orator and jurist. 25. =carcere=: the Mamertine prison at the foot of the Capitoline Hill. This was the only prison in Rome in early times. In it most of the famous captives of the Romans were strangled. It consisted of an upper and lower chamber. The term Tullianum sometimes applied to the prison as a whole is more properly restricted to the lower dungeon. Sallust in the ‘Catiline’ gives an impressive picture of the lower vault in which Jugurtha perished. “There is,” he says, “in the prison a chamber named the Tullianum, about twelve feet below the surface of the earth. It is surrounded by walls, and covered by a vaulted roof of stone; but its appearance is repulsive and fearful, because of the neglect, the darkness, and the stench.” 27. =diem obierat=: lit. ‘he had met his day’ ＝ ‘he died.’ CH. 21. 29. =quae nunc manet=: Eutropius is in error. The Carthage of his time was founded by Augustus. He was carrying out the plans of Julius Caesar in this. PAGE 44. 2. =dēductī sunt=: the regular term for the founding of a colony. =eō= ＝ _ad eum locum_. CH. 22.