[Linenotes: 1. +familiarior+ = _on better terms with_. --Cluer and Matheson. 2. +haud gravate+ = _without reluctance_ (_ungrudgingly_). Compare Sallust’s description of Marius and Sulla. 4. +aequales+ = _competitors_, lit. _well-matched_. +comiter facilis+ = _he was courteously good-natured_. 6-7. +pro re+ = _to suit the occasion_. 9. +artibus iisdem+ = _in the same spirit_. --Weissenborn. 11. +prosecutus+ = _welcoming_, lit. _attending_. 12-13. +cum ... gradum+ = _with whom he happened to engage_. Cf. _collato pede_ = _fighting foot to foot_. 15. +stant obnixi+ = _stand their ground firmly_. +obnixus+ (+ob + nitor+, _strive + against_), _resolute_. 23. +Samnis+, nom. sing. +capi+, +occidi+, Historic Infinitives. 25. +diremisset+ = _had broken off_. _dirimo_ (_dis + emo_) = _take apart_.] +The Battle of Mt. Gaurus.+ The battle was fought on the volcanic range of mountains between Cumae and Neapolis. The Consul in command, M. Valerius, obtained the surname of Corvus (Raven), because when serving as a military Tribune under Camillus in 349 B.C., he defeated the Gallic champion by the aid of a raven. See next page, A. l. 4. [[line 66]] D33 THE LATIN WAR, 340-338 B.C. (1) _Self-Sacrifice of Decius Mus, 340 B.C._ A. _Rome’s Empire safe in the keeping of Augustus._ Curtius expletis statuit monimenta lacunis; At Decius misso proelia rupit equo; 64 Coclitis abscissos testatur semita pontes: Est cui cognomen corvus habere dedit. Haec di condiderunt, haec di quoque moenia servant: Vix timeat, salvo Caesare, Roma Iovem. 68 PROPERTIUS, III. (IV.) xi. (x.) 63-68. [Linenotes: 63. +Curtius ... lacunis+, in allusion to the spot called _Lacus Curtius_ (marked by a circular pavement) in the Forum which served as a memorial (_monimenta_) of his heroic sacrifice. Livy, vii. 6. +lacuna+ (cf. _lacus_) = _a hole_, _pool_, _chasm_. 65. +semita+ (_sed + meo_ = _go + aside_) = _a path_, _road_. Cocles, apparently, gave his name to the street running up from the bridge which he ‘kept so well.’ --Ramsay. 66. +cui+, i.e. M. Valerius Corvus, the hero of Mt. Gaurus. See p. 91. [[previous selection]] 67-68. i.e. _with Caesar_ (_Augustus_) _safe_, Rome has none to fear, nay, scarce Jove himself. Flattery can go no further than this!] B. _The Dream of the Consuls on the Eve of Battle._