573
Titus Livius, XXXIX. 26.
574
Titus Livius, XLI. 19.
575
Titus Livius, XLI. 22.
576
Titus Livius, XLII. 62.
577
Titus Livius, XLI. 5.
578
Titus Livius, XLV. 21 et seq.
579
Titus Livius, XLV. 29.
580
Titus Livius, XLV. 26.
581
Titus Livius, XLV. 18. – “The laws given to the Macedonians by Paulus Æmilius were so wisely framed, that they seemed to have been made not for vanquished enemies, but for allies whose services it was desired to reward; and in which, after a long course of years, use, the sole reformer of laws, showed nothing defective.” (Titus Livius, XLV. 32.)
582
Polybius, XXX. 10; XXXV. 6.
583
Titus Livius, XLII. 24. – We see by the following passage in Livy that Masinissa feared the justice of the Senate as against his own interest: “If Perseus had had the advantage, and if Carthage had been deprived of the Roman protection, nothing would then have hindered Masinissa from conquering all Africa.” (Titus Livius, XLII. 29.)
584
Titus Livius, XLV. 13.
585
Titus Livius, XLV. 42.
586
Titus Livius, XLV. 44.
587
Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 45.
588
Titus Livius, XLI. 7.
589
Titus Livius, XLIII. 1.
590
Titus Livius, XXXIX. 3.
591
“It was commonly said that the masters of the Spanish provinces themselves opposed the prosecution of noble and powerful persons.” (Titus Livius, XLIII. 2.)
592
Valerius Maximus, VI. ix. 10.
593
Montesquieu, Grandeur et Décadence des Romains, ix. 66.
594
Scipio reproves the people, who wished to make him perpetual consul and dictator. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 56.)
595
Cato used interpreters in speaking to the Athenians, though he understood Greek perfectly. (Plutarch, Cato the Censor, 18.) – It was an old habit of the Romans, indeed, to address strangers only in Latin. (Valerius Maximus, II. ii. 2.)
596
Plutarch, Cato the Censor, 8, 25.
597
Titus Livius, Epitome, XLVIII. – Valerius Maximus, IV. i. 10.