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‘ miles possit adiungere, et utinam Gallienum non esset passa res publica! utinam sescentos tyrannos non 1 2 3 4 5 6 pertulisset! salvis militibus, quos varia proelia sustulerunt, salvis legionibus quas Gallienus male victor ’
1 See c. iii. 3.
2 Evidently from Ennius' Scipio, a poem eulogizing the elder Africanus. These two lines are unmetrical and are plainly an inexact quotation.
3 See note to c. i. 1.
4 The thousand ships of the Greeks in the war against Troy. But see note to c. vi. 1.
5 See c. iii. 1 and note.
6 Otherwise unknown.
Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol 3. David Magie. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1932. OCR cleanup.
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