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20. Faranda 1971: 16. Some number crunching: as I count it, Alexander
crops up (including in the epitomized sections) twenty-four times,
outdoing all other challengers except Scipio Africanus Maior (forty-nine
entrances), Hannibal (forty), Pompey (thirty-seven), Marius (and his legacy,
twenty-nine plus fi ve), Caesar (including Diuus Iulius, twenty-four
plus eight), Sulla (thirty), Scipio Africanus Minor (twenty-seven). See
Bloomer 1992: 150 and Wardle 2005: 145–46 and n. 26 for slightly
different fi gures.
21. See Bloomer 1992: 8, 9, 160–61. Cf. Walker 2004: xix.
22. Maslakov 1984: 444.
23. Quamquam quid attinet mores natione perpendi? in media
barbaria ortus sacrilegium alienum rescidit . . . (1.1 ext. 3).
24. Thirty-one instances of Carthage; twenty-eight references to
Carthaginians; twenty-three instances of Poenus, and forty-eight of Punica
(alternate terms for Carthage and Carthaginians).
25. Livy’s Hannibal at the Colline Gate was particularly infl uential
(26.10.5–6). See also Juvenal Satires 6.290; 7.161. Cf. Faranda: 1971: 23
on Valerius’ Hannibal: “Basti pensare al giudizio che spesso ricorre su
Annibale, considerato semplicemente e semplicisticamente un furbastro
generale, e non quel grande implacabile stratega e tattico che fu.” (All too
often, judgment of Hannibal resorts to stereotyping him simply and simplistically
as a sneaky commander rather than as the great, relentless
strategist and tactician that he was).
26. See Spencer 2002: 14, 157–59, 168–69.
27. See, e.g., Spencer 2002: 94–97 on the aftermath (Curtius 6.2.1–5).
28. Only Hannibal (of Valerius’ alieni) appears more often than
Alexander.
29. On the importance of gossip and innuendo in the Roman legal
system: Dufallo 2001: 138.
30. This proposal dovetails with the speculations of Schultz 2007 on
Philip and Zeus: belief systems are complex and subject to nuance and
context.
31. Mueller 2002: 95–96. Mueller draws in a different but equally telling
comparison, proposing that we compare 9.5 ext. 1 with Valerius’ comments
on Scipio’s conversational relationship with Capitoline Jupiter,
whom he was accustomed to visit (4.1.6). See Spencer 2002: 178–79 on
Scipio, Jupiter, and Alexander.
32. On epistolary advice giving and Alexander: see Spencer 2006.
33. Fears 1981 remains the major discussion of clementia as an imperial
virtue; see also Spencer 2002: 97–112, 170–75. On Alexander’s virtuous
qualities in Valerius: Haegemans and Stoppie 2004: 149–57. On reciprocity
in more general terms as a function of patronage (and power-i mbalance),
see, e.g., White 1993. On advice and reciprocity: Spencer 2006.