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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. 
Eomilius,^^ 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 authority. 
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 
effect when shaken by the rapid movements of the horse. 
88 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 Eome. 
90 The word " fiscus" signifies a wicker basket or pannier, probably of 
peculiar construction, in which the Romans were 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 We have nearly the same detail of the honours bestowed on Dentatus 
by Yal. 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. 
92 T. Romilius Rocus Yaticanus 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, inconsequence, brought to trial, and Yeturius 
was sentenced to pay 10,000 asses. He was, however, elected augur in 
453, as some compensation for the ill-treatment he had experienced. 
93 Livy, B. iii. c. 31, gives an account of the conviction of Romilius, but 
says, that it was effected 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. 
