Romulus was snatched away from the earth. Servius states of these annals that they had been divided into eighty books. It is to be remarked, however, that this passage of the Scholion is not found in the Codex Fuldensis, but only in several other manuscripts, the trustworthiness of which is indeed rather doubtful; yet it is not to be understood, how any one could have told stories precisely on this subject. Cicero, in the introduction to the books _De legibus_, says moreover concerning the _Annales Maximi_, _quibus nihil potest esse jucundius_, which is quite enigmatical. The manuscripts of the books _De legibus_ have all of them in the fifteenth century, from the year 1420, been copied from one single manuscript. Ursinus conjectures instead of _jucundius_, _jejunius_, which indeed has much in its favour; others propose _incomtius_. A first-rate author, however, may sometimes easily venture upon an expression which puzzles and distracts us; and thus Cicero may have written in this passage _jucundius_, merely in order to designate the enjoyment which historical records of such high antiquity afford, owing to their credibility. At least we should not be justified in altering the word. We may form a distinct idea of these annals from the passages which Livy has quoted from them at the end of the tenth book, especially where he mentions the election of the magistrates, and in the third and fourth decades. As it seems, Livy’s copy only began with the year 460 A. U. C., otherwise he would have certainly made an earlier use of it.