^{page 142 note 1} Livy 2.36.1, Dion. Hal. 7.68.3–69.2, Val. Max. 1.7.4 (who places the ludi in the Circus Flaminius: cf. PBSR 44 (1976), 44–5),Google Scholar Macr. Sat. 1.11.3 (who reveals the aetiological significance of the story: furca instauratio). cf. also Aug, . CD. 4.26,Google Scholar Arnob. 7.39, Lact, . Div. Inst. 2.7.20.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 2} Cic. leg. 1.6: ‘Fanniautem aetate coniunctus Antipater …’’

^{page 142 note 3} Censorinus, , de die nat. 17.11: ‘at Piso censorius et Cn. Gellius sed et Cassius Hemina, qui illo tempore vivebat, post annum factos tertium adfirmant, Cn. Cornelio Lentulo L. Mummio Achaico consulibus, id est anno DCVIII.’’Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 4} Badian, E., in Dorey, T. A. (ed.), Latin Historians (London, 1966), p.12.Google Scholar The argument is not invalidated by Miss Rawson's demonstration (in CQ 21 (1971), 166–9) of the unhistorical character of the material in the Annales maximi: Gellius too evidently wrote antiquarian aetiology.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 5} Rawson, E., Latomus 35 (1976), 716.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 6} Gabba, E., in Les Origines de la république romaine, Entretiens Hardt 13 (Geneva, 1967), p.161.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 7} Dion. Hal. 2.38.3 and 39.1, 12.9.3, Pliny, N.H. 13.84,Google ScholarCens, . die nat. 17.11Google Scholar; cf. Rawson, , Latomus 35 (1976), 706 and 709 on fragments that show an interest in censorial matters.Google Scholar

^{page 142 note 8} Fr. 26P, cited by Charisius from book 33 and by Priscian from book 30, evidently dealt with the same episode as Livy 22.24.11. (Fr. 29P from the 97th book: the numeral may not be reliable.)

^{page 142 note 9} Compare Livy: 133 books in about thirty years, c. 29 B.C. to A.D. 1? Syme, R., HSCP 64 (1959), 50 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 143 note 1} This was suggested to me by Professor Badian.

^{page 143 note 2} Cic, . leg. 1.6:Google Scholar ‘ecce autem successere huic [sc. Antipatro] † belli †, Clodius, Asellio: nihil ad Coelium, sed potius ad antiquorum languorem et inscitiam.’’

^{page 143 note 3} Cic, . leg. 1.6Google Scholar and Att. 12.3.1 (Vennonius); cf. Rawson, , JRS 62 (1972), 35 f. on Cicero's historical studies.Google Scholar

^{page 143 note 4} Cic, . div. 1.8: ‘nuper cum essem cum Q. fratre in Tusculano …’’Google Scholar

^{page 143 note 5} Funaioli, H. (ed.), Grammaticae Romanae fragmenta (Teubner, 1907), pp.215 ff., cf. p.182.Google Scholar

^{page 143 note 6} Antias frr. 18, 22, 40, 55P.

^{page 143 note 7} This is, indeed, widely believed; but see Cloud, J. D., LCM 2 (1977), 211–13 and 225–7, whose counter-arguments seem to me conclusive.Google Scholar

^{page 143 note 8} ‘Solent passim has voces commutare librarii’’: A. Drakenborch on Livy 22.22.7 (Amsterdam, 1740). I owe this reference to Dr. Woodman.

^{page 144 note 1} Cic, . leg. 1.6 (‘paulo inflavit vehementius’’), de or. 2.54 (‘addidit maiorem historiae sonum’’).Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 2} Badian, , op. cit., p.16: ‘he is fond of portents and divine interventions’’, e.g. div. 1.48, 49, 56, 78.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 3} See Plasberg's, O. preface (1917)Google Scholar to Ax's, W. edition of de natura deorum (Teubner, 1933), p.viGoogle Scholar cf. Pease, A. S., M. Tulli Ciceronis de natura deorum libri III (Harvard, 1955), pp.83–5.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 4} Ibid., pp.v–ix.

^{page 144 note 5} Hunt, T. J., Pegasus 5 (1966), 52–7. I am grateful to my colleague John Glucker for drawing my attention to this point.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 6} Notably summa manus for Summanus (div. 1.16), Theseus for Rhesus (N.D. 3.45), and–splendidly–extis piscium for extispicum (div. 1.29).

^{page 144 note 7} Aug. contra lulianum 4.12.58 (Patrologia Latina xliv.766): ‘pulmones autem et cor extrinsecus spiritum adducant’’. The other Cicero manuscripts have ducant or adducantur.Google Scholar

^{page 144 note 8} This note has been very greatly improved by the comments of Ernst Badian and Tony Woodman on an earlier version. It should not necessarily be assumed that they both agree with its conclusion.