ned their ranks to make way
for them: the chariots were surrounded by the Roman soldiers in the
rear and destroyed.]

[Footnote 240: A Circus was a Roman racecourse. The chief circus was
the Circus Maximus, which was used also for hunts of wild beasts. See
the article "Circus" in Smith's _Dictionary of Antiquities_.]

[Footnote 241: I have kept the Greek word ([Greek: hoplites]), which
means a soldier who was equipped with defensive armour for close
fighting.]

[Footnote 242: The Saturnalia were a kind of Carnival at Rome in the
month of December, when people indulged themselves in feasting and
revelry, and the slaves had the license of doing for a time what they
pleased, and acting as if they were freemen. The original "freedom of
speech" may mean a little more than these words convey. The point of
the centurion's remark, like many other jokes of antiquity, seems
rather blunt. He simply meant to express surprise at seeing slaves in
an army serving as soldiers--they whose only freedom, so far as he
knew, was to have a little license once a year at the Saturnalia.]

[Footnote 243: A town in Euboea on the strait of the Euripus which
separates the island of Euboea from the mainland. The smallness of the
Roman loss is incredible. Appian considerately add one to the number,
and makes it fifteen (_Mithridatic War_, c. 42, &c.) Sulla was a
braggart, though he was brave.]

[Footnote 244: This stream is called Morius (c. 17). Pausanias, who
made his tour through Greece in the first half of the second century
of our aera, saw the trophies (ix. 40).]

[Footnote 245: L. Valerius Flaccus was elected consul B.C. 86 in the
place of C. Marius, who died at the beginning of the year.]

[Footnote 246: The name given by the Greeks and Romans to that part of
the Mediterranean which lay between Dyrrachium (Durazzo) and the
opposite coast of Italy. Thucydides (i. 24) makes the Ionian Sea
commence about Epidamnus (which was the old name of Dyrrachium), and
probably he extended the name to all the Adriatic or modern Gulf of
Venice.]

[Footnote 247: A town in Phthiotis, a district which is included in
Thessalia in the larger sense of that term. It was on the river
Enipeus, a branch of the Peneus. (Strabo, p. 452.) Thucydides (iv. 78)
means the same place, when he speaks of Meliteia in Achaea.]

[Footnote 248: A mountain in Boeotia and a spring (Tilphussa) about
fifty stadia from Haliartus. (Pausanias, ix. 33.) Haliartus is on the
sou