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Origin of the Roman People
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  • Anonymous: On the Origin of the Roman People
  1: . sibimet: 'sibi' plus the suffix -met (compare egomet) - Steven 
  2: . ex annalibus pontificum: "from the annals of the pontifices" - that would have pontifex in the pl[...]
  3: . ex omni priscorum historia: "from every account of ancient times" or "of ancient writers"


  • II.
  4: . Note on spelling of names: Erechtheus, Xuthus - Petrushka / Corrected, thanks! - Steven
  5: . It is not clear from the Latin if the person going to Delphi is Erectheus or Xutho. The French t[...]


  • III.
  6: . Perhaps it ought to be 'Latins'? Latium agrees with genus which is collective singular... - DPD [...]
  7: . Actually aeris = small coin, moneta = larger coin - Steven 
  8: . There is a marked difference here with the French translation, which reads more or less "Saturn t[...]
  9: . 'detuleruat' should be corrected to 'detulerat' in the Latin original; this isn't a very good tr[...]
  10: . I think the hill is named in the neuter, not the masculine... - DPD / Latin is correct as given [...]
  11: . Bude is longer than Tuebner: 8 Eique, eo quod erat mire praeteritorum memor, tum etiam futuri <pr[...]


  • IV.
  12: . Fragment number for this? Latin Library edition of Ennius doesn't have fragment numbers. / Enniu[...]


  • V.
  13: . a.k.a. Carmentis
  14: . Georgic 3.392.
  15: . Eclogue 4.58-59 [thanks, Roger]


  • VI.
  16: . An older greek legendary hero; It is manifest that the native myths of Recaranus, or Sancus, or [...]
  17: . [I couldn't find a meaning to eiuscemodi -- Steven]


  • VII.
  18: . Dio Cassius?


  • VIII.
  19: . [Gk., "hunger"] 


  • IX.
  20: . Ilium = Troy.
  21: . Lutatius = author of a history known as Communis Historia or Communes Historiae, which contained[...]
  22: . Apparently the writer prefers to use the Greek version of the name of the city of Misenum; simil[...]
  23: . Anyone got any idea who this Caesar is? I haven't been able to locate any other references to an[...]
  24: . Aeneid 6.232-3.


  • XI.
  25: . The French text supplies [... and sacrificed the sow and founded a city ...] -- Nothing in the Bu[...]


  • XII.
  26: . I'm not certain what plant is meant by apium. "Parsley" is a possible alternative to "celery". -[...]
  27: . Between 300 and 350 modern acres. -- Edward.


  • XIII.
  28: . For Lutatius, see note on 9.2.
  29: . Piso = L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, consul 133 BC and author of a history, the Annals, which recoun[...]


  • XIV.
  30: . Numici fluminis stagnum: might this refer to the sacred spring of Juturna near Numicus?
  31: . The meaning of Indiges is uncertain.


  • XVII.
  32: . Praeneste = modern Palestrina, Tibur = Tivoli, Gabii = Castiglione, Tusculum no longer exists, [...]


  • XIX.
  33: . I don't know why petenti is dative or ablative. My translation would seem to require petentem in[...]


  • XX.
  34: . For clarity and to avoid a larger amount of translationese, I've added words in brackets to roun[...]
  35: . Q. Fabius Pictor (fl. late 3rd c. BC): A senator, magistrate, and author of a history covering t[...]
  36: . Vennonius (fl. 1st c. BC?): An annalist. Nothing else known about him. See Conte, p. 122.


  • XXI.
  37: . The first suggestion, "the wolf" is incorrect; "whore" is the meaning. Lupa, lupae means also "f[...]
  38: . capaces facti essent must be one of the most inelegant Latin phrases I ever heard. In fact this e[...]
  39: . remores not found in the dictionary. -- Steven Remores, remorum were originally some special[...]


  • XXII.
  40: . A grotto sacred to Pan - [square brackets] extra words in English 
  41: . pensitari was not in my dictionary, but "pensum, pensi" is given as "quantity of wool given to b[...]
  42: . I couldn't find a meaning for foeni other than "interest on capital" -- Steven 
  43: . I changed "killed" to "overthrown", because oppresso doesn't include assassination I think - un[...]


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