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torcs,*^ one hundred and sixty bracelets,^^ twenty-six crowns, 

 (of which fourteen were civic, eight golden, three mural, and 

 one obsidional), a fisc^ of money, ten prisoners, and twenty 

 oxen altogether.^^ He followed in the triumphal processions 

 of nine generals, who mainly owed their victories to his exer- 

 tions ; besides all which, a thing that I look upon as the most 

 important of all his services, he denounced to the people T. 

 Romilius,^'- one of the generals of the army, at the end of his 

 consulship, and had him convicted of having made an improper 

 use of his authorit}^^^ 



The military honours of Manlius Capitolinus would have 

 been no less splendid than his, if they had not been all effaced 

 at the close of his life. Before his seventeenth year, he had 



of horses, and worn as pendants from the head, so as to produce a terrific 

 eflFect when shaken by the rapid movements of the horse. 



*^ The " torques" was an ornament of gold, twisted spirally and bent 

 into a circular form, and worn among the upper classes of the Persians, 

 the Gauls, and other Asiatic and northern nations. They are often found 

 both in France and Ireland, as well as in this country, but varying greatly 

 in size and weight. 



^9 Golden " armillse," or bracelets, were worn by the Gauls on the arms 

 and the legs. The Sabines also wore them on the left arm, at the time of 

 the foundation of Rome. 



^ The word " fiscus" signifies a wicker basket or pannier, probably of 

 peculiar construction, in which the Eomans Avere accustomed to keep and 

 carry about large sums of money. In process of time the word came to 

 signify a treasure or money-chest. 



91 AYe have nearly the same detail of the honours bestowed on Dentatus 

 by Val. Maximus, B. iii. c. 2. Pliny again speaks of Dentatus, and the 

 honours bestowed upon him, B. xxii. c. 5 ; and especially notices the " co- 

 rona graminea," the grass or obsidional crown, as the highest of his ho- 

 nours. The different kinds of honorary crowns are very fully described in 

 B. xvi. c. 3, 4, and 5 ; in B. xxii. c. 4, we have a particular account of 

 the "corona graminea;" in c. 5, mention is made of its having been given 

 to Dentatus, and, in the next, other individuals are enumerated to whom it 

 had been presented. — B. 



^' T. Eomilius Rocus Vaticanus was consul B.C. 455. Having de- 

 feated the ^qui, and gained immense booty, instead of distributing it 

 among the soldiers, he and his colleague sold it, on account of the poverty 

 of the treasury. They were, in consequence, brought to trial, and Veturius 

 was sentenced to pay 10,000 asses. He was, however, elected augur in 

 453, as some compensation for the ill-treatment he had experienced. 



33 Livy, B. iii. c. 31, gives an account of the conviction of Romilius, but 

 says, that it was efi'ected by C. Claudius Cicero, the tribune of the people. 

 To obviate the discordance in the names, some commentators have pro- 

 posed to substitute the words *' Lucio Siccio" for " Claudio Cicerone." — B. 



