1 Virgil, Aeneid, II, 774.

2 Du Bellay, Mémoires, VIII, 255.

3 Tacitus, Hist., I, lxiii.

4 Quintus Curtius, III, ii. The general account is from Joannes Zonaras, Historia, III.

5 Livy, Annal., XXI, lvi.

6 Cicero, Tusc. disput., III, xxvii, 66. (The event figures in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.) Then ibid., IV, viii, 19, citing Ennius.

7 Diodorus Siculus, XV, vii.

8 Cf. Erasmus, Adages, III, VIII, III, Panicus casus; also Apophthegmata, V; Epaminondas, I.