te this so as to give the force of
the original. Cicero says, If _cupiditas_ is in a man he must be
_cupidus_, and we have no English word which will at all answer to
this adjective in this sense.

31 The Latin is "quicum in tenebris,"--the proverb at full length being,
"Dignus quicum in tenebris mices." Micare was a game played, (much
the same as that now called _La Mora_ in Italy,) by extending the
fingers and making the antagonist guess how many fingers were
extended by the two together.

32 This was Quintus Pompeius, the first man who raised his family to
importance at Rome. He was consul B.C. 141. Being commander in
Spain, he laid siege to Numantia; and having lost great numbers of
his troops through cold and disease, he proposed to the Numantines
to come to terms. Publicly he required of them an unconditional
surrender, but in private he only demanded the restoration of the
prisoners and deserters, that they should give hostages and pay
thirty talents. The Numantines agreed to this, and paid part of the
money, but when Popilius Laenas arrived in Spain as his successor, he
denied the treaty, though it had been witnessed by his own officers.
The matter was referred to the senate, who on the evidence of
Pompeius declared the treaty invalid, and the war was renewed.

33 The Voconia lex was passed on the proposal of Quintus Voconius Saxa,
one of the tribunes, B.C. 169. One of its provisions was, that a
woman could not be left the heiress of any person who was rated in
the census at 100,000 sesterces; though she could take the
inheritance _per fidei commissum_. But as the law applied only to
wills, a daughter could inherit from a father dying intestate,
whatever the amount of his property might be. A person who was not
_census_ could make a woman his heir. There is, however, a good deal
of obscurity and uncertainty as to some of the provisions of this
law.

34 There appears to be some corruption in the text here.

35 Spurius Lucretius Tricipitinus, the father of Lucretia, was made
consul as the colleague of Valerius Publicola, in the place of
Brutus, who had been slain in battle by Aruns, one of the sons of
Tarquin.

36 Themista was a female philosopher, wife of a man named Leonteus, or
Leon, and a friend and corr