[Linenotes: 3-6. +quod ei fuit ...+ = lit. which he might very easily have done with that band (of men) and those forces, so that ... 4. +Rutulorum.+ S. of Rome. Turnus their King. Capital, Ardea. 6. +coloniam+, i.e. Ostia, the harbour of Rome and chief naval station. 7-8. +non esse opportunissimos+, e.g. as exposed to sudden attacks, and likely to contain a too large foreign element. 12-13. +quo redundaret+ = _its own superabundance_. 17-18. +is tractus ductusque+ = _the plan and direction_. 19. +definitus+ = _bounded_. 20. +arduis praeruptisque montibus.+ ‘The amphitheatre of seven hills which encloses the meadows (afterwards the Campus Martius) in the bend of the Tiber, varying from 120 to 180 feet above the stream, offered heights sufficiently elevated and abrupt for fortification, yet without difficulties for the builder or cultivator.’] N.B.--In this passage be careful to translate Cicero’s long, periodic sentences by two or more separate sentences in English. +The Position of Rome.+ ‘There was no place better fitted for an emporium of the Tiber and sea traffic, and for a maritime frontier fortress than Rome. It combined the advantages of a strong position and of immediate vicinity to the river.’ Mommsen. D7 THE PRAISE OF ITALY. _‘Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus.’_ Sed neque Medorum silvae ditissima terra, Nec pulcher Ganges atque auro turbidus Hermus Laudibus Italiae certent, non Bactra, neque Indi Totaque turiferis Panchaia pinguis harenis. Haec loca non tauri spirantes naribus ignem 140 Invertere satis immanis dentibus hydri, Nec galeis densisque virum seges horruit hastis; Sed gravidae fruges et Bacchi Massicus umor Implevere; tenent oleae armentaque laeta. Hinc bellator equus campo sese arduus infert; 145 Hinc albi, Clitumne, greges, et maxima taurus Victima, saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro, Romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphos. Hic ver assiduum atque alienis mensibus aestas; Bis gravidae pecudes, bis pomis utilis arbor. 150 At rabidae tigres absunt et saeva leonum Semina, nec miseros fallunt aconita legentes, Nec rapit immensos orbis per humum, neque tanto Squameus in spiram tractu se colligit anguis. VERGIL, _Georg._ ii, 136-154.