[678] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 17. [679] “I am not one of those consuls who think that it is a crime to praise in the Gracchi, as magistrates whose counsels, wisdom, and laws carried a salutary reform into many parts of the administration.” (Cicero, _Second Speech on the Agrarian Law_, 5.) [680] Appian, _Civil Wars_, I. 27. [681] Sallust, _Jugurtha_, 31. [682] Sallust, _Jugurtha_, 5. [683] “Marius had only made his temper more unyielding.” (Plutarch, _Sylla_, 39.)--“Talent, probity, simplicity, profound knowledge of the art of war, Marius joined to the same degree the contempt of riches and pleasures with the love of glory.” (Sallust, _Jugurtha_, 63.)--Marius was born on the territory of Arpinum, at _Cereatæ_, now Casamari (the house of Marius). [684] “Obtained the esteem of both parties.” (Plutarch, _Marius_, 4.) [685] Sallust, _Jugurtha_, 85. [686] Plutarch, _Marius_, 10. [687] Plutarch, _Marius_, 19. [688] Plutarch, _Marius_, 11. [689] Plutarch, _Marius_, 28. [690] Plutarch, _Marius_, 29. [691] Titus Livius, XXIII. 22. [692] In our opinion, _bellum sociale_, or _sociorum_, has been wrongly translated by “social war,” an expression which gives a meaning entirely contrary to the nature of this war. [693] Velleius Paterculus, II. 15. [694] LIST OF THE DIFFERENT CENSUSES:-- Year of Rome Census 187. 80,000. The first census under Servius Tullius. (Titus Livius, I. 44. --Dionysius of Halicarnassus, IV. 22.--Eutropius, I. 7.) 245. 130,000. (Plutarch, _Publicola_, 14.) 278. 110,000. (Upwards of). (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, IX. 25.)--119,309 according to Eutropius, I. 14; and 120,000 according to G. Syncellus, 452, ed. Bonn. 280. 190,000. (Rather more than). (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, IX. 36.) (Towards 286). 8,714. (_sic._) (Titus Livius, _Epitome_, III., ed. O. Jahn.) Correct it to 118,714. 295. 117,319. (Titus Livius, III. 24.)--117,219 according to the _Epitome_. 331. 120,000. (Canon of Eusebius, Olympiad lxxxix. 2; 115,000 according to another manuscript.) This passage is wanting in the Armenian translation. 365. 152,573. (Pliny, _Natural History_, XXXIII. 16, ed. Sillig.) 415. 165,000. (Eusebius, Olymp. cx. 1.) 422} (Titus Livius, IX. 19.--G. Syncellus, _Chronographia_, to } 250,000. 525, has the number 260,000.) 435} 460. 262,321. (Titus Livius, X. 47; the _Epitome_, 272,320.--Eusebius, Olymp. cxxi. 4, writes 270,000; the Armenian translator, 220,000.) 465. 272,000. (Titus Livius, _Epitome_, XI.) 474. 287,222. (Titus Livius, _Epitome_, XIII.) 479. 292,334. (Eutropius, II. 10.)--271,234 according to Titus Livius (_Epitome_, XIV.). 489. 382,234. (Titus Livius, _Epitome_, XVI.) Correct it to 282,234.