1. Concerning inheritance by women (169 B.C.).

2. Conqueror of King Perseus of Macedonia at the battle of Pydna (168 B.C.).

1. See pp. 235. Titus Coruncanius, consul 280 B.C., triumphed over the Etruscans, and was the first plebeian chief priest and an early jurist.

2. (Caecus): consul 307 and 296 B.C., the earliest Roman prose-writer and ‘first clear-cut personality in Roman history’. His speech was attributed to a meeting of the Senate in 280 or 278 B.C.

3. Scipio Aemilianus was to end the Third Punic War by destroying Carthage in 146 B.C.Cato had repeatedly said ‘Carthage must be destroyed’.

1. The Game if Ludo is correct – Lupo (The Wolf) is a variant reading.

1. Simonides of Ceos, c. 556–468 B.C., Greek lyric and epigrammatic poet; Xenocrates, 397–315/13, head of the Academy; Diogenes the Stoic, see above, p. 178; for both the other philosophers mentioned here, see above, pp. 17 ff. The tragedian Sophocles is believed to have lived from c. 496 to 406 B.C.

1. From The Little Necklace, comedy by Caecilius (d. 168 B.C.). ‘The unhappiest thing’: from his play Ephesio.

2. Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and poet (7th–6th century B.C.).