Africano superiori: the conqueror of Hannibal. in sepulcro Scipionum: this tomb on the Appian Way has been discovered, and in it a bust of peperino (not marble), which has by some been supposed to be that here referred to. It now stands upon the sarcophagus of Scipio in the Vatican museum (Fig. 42). hujus: M. Porcius Cato, later called Uticensis, from his killing himself at Utica after Caesar's victory. Cato the Censor was his great-grandfather. Maximi, etc.: Q. Fabius Maximus, "the shield of Rome," in the Second Punic War; M. Marcellus, "the sword of Rome" (see note on p. 48, l. 5); Q. Fulvius Flaccus, a distinguished officer in the same war. illum, i.e. Ennius. Heracliensem: Heraclia (see note on p. 157, l. 11), as being an important city, is here contrasted with the insignificant Rudiae. civitatibus . ยง 375 (232 a), G 354. H. 431, 2 (388, 1); H.-B. 373, 2.
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