598
Plutarch, Cato the Censor, 34. – Aulus Gellius, VI. 14.
599
Titus Livius, Epitome, XLIX.
600
“Cato barked without ceasing at the greatness of Scipio.” (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 54.)
601
“P. Cato had a bitter mind, a sharp and unmeasured tongue.” (Titus Livius, XXXIX. 40.)
602
“He declaimed against usurers, and he himself lent out, at high interest, the money which he got from his estates. He condemned the sale of young slaves, yet trafficked in the same under an assumed name.” (Plutarch, Cato the Censor, 33.)
603
Drumann, Geschichte Roms, v., p. 148.
604
“The last act of his political life was to cause the ruin of Carthage to be determined on.” (Plutarch, Cato the Censor, 39.)
605
Titus Livius, Epitome, XLVIII.
606
At Carthage, the multitude governed; at Rome, the power of the Senate was absolute. (Polybius, VI. 51.)
607
Titus Livius, L. 16.
608
Appian, Punic Wars, 93 et seq.
609
Justin, XXXIV. 1. – Titus Livius, Epitome, LI. – Polybius, I. 2, 3.
610
Pausanias, VII. 16. – Justin, XXXIV. 2.
611
Polybius, XL. 11.
612
Appian, Wars of Spain, 52.
613
Eutropius, IV. 7.
614
The town of Garray, in Spain, situated about a league from Soria, on the Duero, is built on the site of ancient Numantia. (Miñano, Diccionario Geográfico de España.)
615
Appian, Civil Wars, V. iv. 38.
616
Velleius Paterculus, II. 20.
617
Titus Livius, XXXIV. 31.
618
Titus Livius, XLV. 21.
619
Titus Livius, VII. 43.
620
In 555, 585, and 639. (Titus Livius, XLV. 15.) – Aurelius Victor, Illustrious Men, lxii.
621
The tribune Licinius Crassus proposed, in 609, to transfer to the people the election of the pontiffs, until then nominated by the sacerdotal college. This proposition was adopted only in 650 by the law Domitia, and was anew abolished by Sylla.
622
Titus Livius, Epitome, LVII.