[232] Titus Livius, _Epitome_, XI.--Pliny, XVI. x. 37. [233] Cicero, _Brutus_, C. xiv.--Zonaras, _Annales_, VIII. 2. [234] “You see here all the principal senators who set you the example. They will partake with you the fatigues and perils of war, although the laws and their age exempt them from carrying arms.” (_Speech of the Dictator Postumius to his troops_; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, VI. 9.) [235] Titus Livius, X., XII. 49. [236] Valerius Maximus, II. viii. 4, 7. [237] Plutarch, _Flamininus_, xxviii. [238] Aur. Victor, _Ill. Men_, xxxvi. and xxvii. [239] Titus Livius, IX. 10 [240] “A sedition was already rising between the patricians and the people, and the terror of so sudden a war (with the Tiburtini) stifled it.” (Titus Livius, VII. 12.)--“Appius Sabinus, to prevent the evils which are an inevitable consequence of idleness, joined with want, determined _to occupy the people in external wars, in order that, gaining their living for themselves_, by finding on the lands of the enemy abundant provisions which were not to be had in Rome, they might render at the same time some service to the State, instead of troubling at an unseasonable moment the senators in the administration of affairs. He said that a town which, like Rome, disputed empire with all others, and was hated by them, could not want a decent pretext for making war; that, if they would judge the future by the past, they would see clearly that all the seditions which had hitherto torn the Republic _had never arrived except in time of peace_, when people no longer feared anything from without.” (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, IX. 43.) [241] Claudius made war thus in Umbria, and took the town of Camerinum, the inhabitants of which he sold for slaves. (See Valerius Maximus, VI. v. § 1.--Titus Livius, _Epitome_, XV.)--Camillus, after the capture of Veii, caused the free men to be sold by auction. (Titus Livius, V. 22.)--In 365, the prisoners, the greater part Etruscans, were sold in the same manner. (Titus Livius, VI. 4.)--The auxiliaries of the Samnites, after the battle of Allifæ (447), were sold as slaves to the number of 7,000. (Titus Livius, IX. 42.) [242] “The military port alone contained two hundred and twenty vessels.” (Appian, _Punic Wars_, VIII. 96, p. 437, ed. Schweighæuser.) [243] Appian, _Punic Wars_, VIII. 95, p. 436. [244] Strabo, XVII. iii. § 15. [245] Appian, _Punic Wars_, VIII. 130, p. 490. [246] 5,820,000 francs [£232,800]. (Appian, _Punic Wars_, CXXVII. 486.) Following the labours of MM. Letronne, Böckh, Mommsen, &c., we have admitted for the sums indicated in the course of the present work the following reckonings:--