[Footnote 37: The law which declared the persons of the tribunes inviolate and him who transgressed it accursed.--D.O.] [Footnote 38: Modern Anzio, south of Ostia on the coast of Latium.--D.O.] [Footnote 39: Between Ardea and Aricia.] [Footnote 40: The sixth part of the as, the Roman money unit, which represented a pound's weight of copper.--D.O.] [Footnote 41: Its ruins lie on the road to Terracina, near Norma, and about forty-five miles from Rome.--D.O.] [Footnote 42: The clientes formed a distinct class; they were the hereditary dependents of certain patrician families (their patroni) to whom they were under various obligations; they naturally sided with the patricians.] [Footnote 43: Dionysius and Plutarch give an account of the prosecution much more favourable to the defendant.--D. O.] [Footnote 44: Celebrated annually in the Circus Maximus, September 4th to 12th, in honour of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, or, according to some authorities, of Consus and Neptunus Equestus.--D.O.] [Footnote 45: A >-shaped yoke placed on the slave's neck, with his hands tied to the ends.--D.O.] [Footnote 46: In a grove at the foot of the Alban Hill.--D.O.] [Footnote 47: There seems to be something wrong here, as Satricum, etc., were situated west of the Via Appia, while Livy places them on the Via Latina. Niebuhr thinks that the words "passing across ... Latin way," should be transposed, and inserted after the words "he then took in succession." For the position of these towns, see Map.] [Footnote 48: Quintus Fabius Pictor, the historian.--D.O.] [Footnote 49: The ager publicus consisted of the landed estates which had belonged to the kings, and were increased by land taken from enemies who had been conquered in war. The patricians, having the chief political power, gained exclusive occupation (possessio) of this ager publicus, for which they paid a nominal rent in the shape of produce and tithes. The nature of the charge brought by Cassius was not the fact of its being occupied by privati, but by patricians to the exclusion of plebeians.] [Footnote 50: "Quaestors," this is the first mention of these officers in Livy; in early times it appears to have been part of their duty to prosecute those who were guilty of treason, and to carry out the punishment.] [Footnote 51: On the west slope of the Esquiline.--D.O.] [Footnote 52: There seems to be something wrong in the text here, as the subterfuge was distinctively a patrician one, and the commons had nothing to gain and all to lose by it. If Livy means that the commons provoked war by giving cause for the patricians to seek refuge in it, he certainly puts it very vaguely.--D. O.] [Footnote 53: July 15th.] [Footnote 54: By being buried alive. The idea being that the ceremonies could not be duly performed by an unchaste vestal.--D. O.] [Footnote 55: By his power of veto.--D.O.]