1 Festus (p. 317) says that the bird in commentariis auguralibus ossifraga ('bonebreaker') appellatur. Pliny (N.H. X. vii. 20) was uncertain as to the meaning of the word sanqualis, which may have been related to the name of the god Sangus (XXXII. i. 10); cf. Festus 371; quia in Sangi dei tutela est.
2 Perhaps a boundary or sepulchral stone or a dedication.
3 I.e., at the spot where the portent occurred, not in Rome.
4 B.C. 177
5 He was consul in 196 B.C. (XXXIII, xxiv. 1) and censor in 189 B.C. (XXXVII. lviii. 2).
6 An Illyrian coin originally, worth three-fourths of a denarius; cf. Pliny N.H. XXX. iii. 46.
7 The custom, at least in recent years, had been to give the Latin allies the same donatives as the Romans (vii. 3 above and the note). The treatment in this case may be part of the general discrimination against them (cf. ix. 9-12 above).
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