[Linenotes: 136. +silvae ditissima+ = _most rich in forests_. --Sidgwick. 137. +Hermus+, auriferous river of Lydia, cf. the R. Pactolus. 138. +Bactra+, modern Balk, N. of Afghanistan. 139. +Panchaia+, i.e. Arabia, the Eldorado of the Old World. 141. +satis ... hydri+ = _where the enormous dragon’s teeth were sown_. +hydri+ (ὕδρος), lit. _a water-snake_. 143. +Massicus umor+ = _Massic juice_, i.e. of Mt. Massicus in N.W. Campania, famous for its wine, espec. the Falernian. 144. +implevere+ (sc. +haec loca+) = _fill it all_. 146. +Clitumne.+ R. of Umbria, famous for its white cattle.[20] 146-148. White cattle were required for the sacrifices of the Triumphs. 149. +alienis mensibus+ = _in months not her own_, i.e. in months properly belonging to winter. 150. +bis gravidae pecudes+ = _twice the cattle give increase_, Conington. 151, 152. +saeva leonum semina+ = _the fierce lion-brood_. --Mackail. +aconita+, a deadly poison--_monkshood_. 153, 154. +neque--anguis+ = _nor with so_ +vast+ _a sweep gather himself into a coil_, i.e. the snakes in Italy are not so large as elsewhere.] +R. Clitumnus.+ Compare Pliny’s beautiful letter (viii. 8) describing its source. [Footnote 20: Cf. the Chillingham ‘Wild Cattle.’] EARLY REPUBLIC, 509-366 B.C. D8 ETRUSCAN INVASION UNDER PORSENA, 507 B.C. (1) ‘_How well Horatius kept the Bridge In the brave days of old._’ A. Nec non Tarquinium eiectum Porsenna iubebat Accipere, ingentique urbem obsidione premebat; Aeneadae in ferrum pro libertate ruebant. Illum indignanti similem, similemque minanti Aspiceres, pontem auderet quia vellere Cocles, 650 Et fluvium vinclis innaret Cloelia ruptis. VERGIL, _Aen._ viii. 646-651. _Venus brings Aeneas his new armour: he gazes at the shield whereon were wrought scenes of the story of Rome to be._ [Linenotes: 646. +Porsenna.+ ‘Lars Porsena of Clusium By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more.’ --Macaulay. 648. +in ferrum ruebant+ = _were flinging themselves on the sword_. --C. 651. +Cloelia+, a Roman hostage, who escaped by swimming the Tiber.]