e at this
time. Formerly the Romans had five symbols for their standards, the
eagle, wolf, minotaur, horse, and wild boar, all of which were
appropriated to respective divisions of the army. Marius in this
Cimbrian war did away with all of them except the eagle. (Plinius,
_N.H_. x. 4.)]

[Footnote 94: The Sequani were a Gallic people who were separated from
the Helvetii by the range of the Jura, on the west side of which their
territory extended from the Rhine to the Rhone and the Saone. (Florus
iii. 3) mentions Teutobocus as the name of a king who was taken by the
Romans and appeared in the triumph of Marius; he was a man of such
prodigious stature that he towered above his own trophies which were
carried in the procession.]

[Footnote 95: The object of this contrivance is explained by Plutarch,
and it is clear enough. There is no reason then to imagine another
purpose in the design, as some do, which moreover involves an
absurdity.]

[Footnote 96: Near Vercelli in Piemont on the Sesia, a branch of the
Po, which the Greeks generally call Eridanus, and the Romans, Padus.
The plain of Vercelli, in which the battle was fought, is called by
Velleius (ii. 12) Raudii campi. The situation of the Raudii campi can
only be inferred from Plutarch. Some geographers place them north of
Milan.]

[Footnote 97: Plutarch pays no attention to the movements of an army,
and his battles are confused. He had perhaps no great turn for
studying military movements, and their minute details did not come
within his plans.]

[Footnote 98: Plutarch alludes to Sulla's memoirs in twenty-two books,
which, he frequently refers to. Catulus wrote a history of the war and
of his consulship, which Cicero (_Brutus_, c. 35) compares as to style
with Xenophon. It appears from Plutarch's remark that he had not seen
the work of Catulus.]

[Footnote 99: [Greek: Dibolia] is the reading that I have followed. I
have given the meaning here and in the first part of the next chapter
as well as I can.]

[Footnote 100: This was the Roman expression for dedicating something
to a sacred purpose. After the victory Catulus consecrated a temple at
Rome "To the Fortune of this Day."]

[Footnote 101: Sextilis, the sixth month of the Roman year when the
year began in March, was called Augustus in honour of Augustus Caesar,
as Quintilis or the fifth month was called Julius in honour of the
Dictator Caesar.]

[Footnote 102: Reiske would make the ambassadors to be f