1 B.C. 169
2 He was the city praetor, cf. XLIII. xv. 3. Under Sulpicius' sponsorship as praetor, Ennius produced his Thyestes (Cicero, Brutus 78), and in his consulship, Terence produced his Andria; for Sulpicius' prediction of an eclipse, see below, xxxvii. 5.
3 For this use of a civilian garment by soldiers, cf. XXII. liv. 2 and the note.
4 B.C. 169
5 For similar rewards, cf. II. xvi. 4-5; XXIII. xlvi. 6-7; XXVI. xxi. 9-13.
6 He was praetor in charge of aliens, XLIII. xv. 3.
7 Severity to knights was previously mentioned, XLIII. xvi. 1; either the process was interrupted by the objections there described, or the censors conducted a new review at this later date. Rutilius was now open to their attack, because he had left the tribunate four days before on December 9.
8 Africanus was the father-in-law of the censor. The Old Shops had been built in 209 B.C., cf. XXVII. xi. 16, and were so called to distinguish them from some built in 194 B.C. The bronze statue of the Etruscan god Vortumnus stood in the Vicus Tuscus some distance south-west of the Forum, but visible from it; the statue is mentioned by Cicero, in Verrem II. I. 59, 154, and Propertius V. (IV.) 2. The god, whose name seems to be good Latin, was in charge of turning or exchange, and received a temple in Rome after the overthrow of his home town of Volsinii in 264 B.C. The Basilica Sempronia was later supplanted by the Basilica Julia.
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