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1 Servilius, on marching south with his consular army, left in northern Italy the forces originally destined to hold the Gauls in check.
2 Fabius had been named dictator (probably in one of the years 221 to 219), to preside over the elections, but there had been no military dictator since Aulus Atilius Calatinus in 249.
3 B.C. 217
4 This vow is not mentioned at XXI. xvii. 4 or lxii. 10.
5 The Romans prayed to Mens (or Mens Bona) for good sense and modesty (,)qualities which had been conspicuously lacking in the conduct of Flaminius. The context here (Venus of Eryx, Sibylline books), together with coins of Paestum representing a goddess shown by the legend to be Bona Mens, and many inscriptions from Magna Graecia attesting the existence of priestly officials called magistri Mentis Bonae, points clearly to a Greek origin for the cult, which is several times alluded to by Roman authors(Cicero, Propertius, Ovid, Persius). The two shrines stood close together on the Capitol (xxx. xxx. 16). See Wissowa, p. 313 f.
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