The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

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It has been already explained that this was the name of one legion.

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The mirmillo was the gladiator who fought with the retiarius; he wore a Gallic helmet with a fish for a crest.

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The English reader must recollect that what is called Gaul in these orations, is Cisalpine Gaul containing what we now call the North of Italy, coming down as far south as Modena and Ravenna.

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After the year B.C. 403 there were two classes of Roman knights, one of which received a horse from the state, and were included in the eighteen centuries of service, the other class, first mentioned by Livy (v. 7) in the account of the siege of Veii, served with their own horses, and instead of having a horse found them, received a certain pay, (three times that of the infantry) and were not included in the eighteen centuries of service. The original knights, to distinguish them from these latter, are often called equites equo publico, sometimes also ficus vanes or trossuli Vide Smith, Dict. Ant. P. 394-396, v. Equites

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He had been one of the septemvirs appointed to preside over the distribution of the lands.

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Janus was the name of a street near the temple of Janus, especially frequented by bankers and usurers. It was divided into summus, nedus and imus Horace says—

  Hase Janus summus ab imo  Edocet [lacuna]  Postquam omms res mea Janum  Ad medium fracta cat.