The annals of Tacitus

ON CHAPTERS 42, 43 105
from the place called Alfivax on the confines of Laconia and
Messenia. The site of the temple is on the western slope of
Mount Ta^vgetus.
4. flrmabant carminihn g. ' asserted on the authority o f
historical records and the liymus of poet^. '
5. Macedonis Philippi, referring to bis invaaion r»f the
Peloponuese after Chaeronea.
6. C. Caesaxis, i.e. itiiii'7'
8. Herculis posteros, i.e. Temenus , Cresphontes , and the
SODS of Aristodenuis.
9. Denthaliatem agmin, on the bank of the river Nedon,
f^ppnsitf tr. T.imnaP
—
10. cessisse. Supplj' dicehant out oi protulere.
12. plures...locupletiores esse, 'they liad authorities more
numerous and more trustworthj-.' Cicero often uses locuples in
this sense, e.g. de off. iii 2 testis locuples Posidonius.
14. Antigoni. Antigonus. king of Macedon . played a lead ing
r^t't iV till" "•^'' "*" UlnniPggfS- a.nfl_r)C2npiPn rsjj^a. a.ftpr_the ha.tt]e
of Sella s ip, I'n •?,•?.•?. -R c
'
*
/I 'T5r~Mummii . in his arrangement of the affairs of Achaia in
ri46 Bx.
MUesios permisso publice arbitrlo. ' This reference to a
public arbitration entrusted to the city of Miletus has been most
happily confirmed by the discovery of an inscription on the base
of the famous statue of Victory by Paeonius at Olympia, which
records the whole transaction. The case was decided by a body
of 600 jurors, who voted in favour of the Messenian claim by a
majority of 586 to 14.' [R., after Hicks, Greek Inscriptions,
No. 200.]
16. praetorem, 'governor.'
17. ita... datum, 'accordingly judgment was given in favour
of the Messenians.'
18. montem apud Erycum, 'on Mount Eryx,' as it is usually
called, near Drenanum . on the extreme western point of Sicily .
Cf. Virgil Aen. v 759 :
turn uicina astris Erycino in uertice sedes
fundatur Veneri Idaliae.