[Footnote 67: "The most eloquent of all historians," says Cruttwell.
Livy understood the spirit of ancient times, making it real to modern
minds because he possest "antiquity of soul." In his own day Livy's
popularity was almost limitless. Pliny the Younger recalled that a man
once traveled to Rome from Cadiz with the express purpose of seeing
Livy. Having seen him he returned home at once, caring for nothing
else in Rome.]
[Footnote 68: From Book II of the "History of Rome." Translated by D.
Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds. "Cocles" was a nick-name meaning the
"one-eyed." With this story every school-boy has been made familiar
through Macaulay's "Lay," beginning:
"Lars Porsena of Clusium
By the Nine Gods he swore
That the great house of Tarquin
Should suffer wrong no more."
]
[Footnote 69: Authorities differ as to the site of this bridge.
"Larousse" has a map which identifies it as the site now occupied by
the AEmilian bridge, at the base of the Palatine, near the mouth of the
Cloaca Maxima; but the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," in a map of ancient
Rome, places it farther down the Tiber near the center of the base of
the Aventine. Murray's "Handbook of Rome" agrees with the
"Britannica." This bridge was the first one built at Rome, and is
ascribed to King Ancus Martius.]
[Footnote 70: From Book XXI of the "History of Rome." Translated by D.
Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds. The identity of the pass through which
Hannibal crossed has been the subject of much controversy. A writer in
Smith's "Dictionary" says the account in Polybius "will be found, on
the whole, to agree best with the supposition that Hannibal crossed by
the Little St. Bernard." At the same time, "there are some
difficulties" attending this inference.]
[Footnote 71: A tribe living in the upper valley of the Po, near
Turin.]
[Footnote 72: From Book XXX of the "History of Rome." Translated by D.
Spillan and Cyrus Edmonds.]
[Footnote 73: Adrumetum lay in what is now Tunis and was originally a
Phenician city. It was older than Carthage. For many centuries it was
a chief seaport for northern Africa. It is now known as Susa.]
[Footnote 74: Hannibal, who when a boy of nine had left Carthage for
Spain with his father, Hamilcar Barca, at that time took an oath upon
an altar declaring eternal hostility to Rome. In the year of Zama he
was forty-five years old.]