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[259] Livy (x.x.xii. 26) speaks of them as _nationis eius_. He has just mentioned the slaves of the Carthaginian hostages. But it does not follow that either cla.s.s was composed of native Africans. They may have been imported Asiatics, as in Sicily.

[260] Liv. x.x.xii. 26.

[261] Liv. x.x.xiii. 36 Etruriam infestam prope conjuratio servorum fecit.

[262] Liv. x.x.xix. 29.

[263] Bucher _Die Aufstande der unfreien Arbeiter_ p. 34. Cf. Soltau in _Kulturgesch. des kla.s.s. Altertums_ p. 326.

[264] Oros. v. 9 Diodor. x.x.xiv. 2. 19.

[265] Mahaffy l.c.

[266] Cf. Bucher op. cit. p. 79.

[267] Diod. x.x.xiv. 2. 27. For the large number of Roman proprietors in Sicily see Florus ii. 7 (iii. 19) 3--(Sicilia) terra frugum ferax et quodam modo suburbana provincia latifundis civium Romanorum tenebatur.

[268] Diod. x.x.xiv. 2. 32. 36.

[269] Diod. l.c.

[270] Diod. x.x.xiv. 2. 31. This may have been true of the time of which we are speaking; for the influence of the Roman residents in Sicily on the administration of the island must always have been great. But Diodorus a.s.signs an incorrect reason when he states that the Roman knights of Sicily were judges of the governors of the provinces. This is true only of the period preceding the second servile war.

[271] Historians profess to tell the mechanism by which this device was secured. A spark of fire was placed with inflammable material in a hollow nut or some similar small object, which was perforated. The receptacle was placed in the mouth, and judicious breathing did the rest. See Diodorus x.x.xiv, 2. 7; Floras ii. 7 (iii. 19).

[272] Nitzsch _Die Gracchen_ p. 228.

[273] Diod. x.x.xiv. 2. 24 [Greek: _hypo gar taes pepromenaes autois kekyrosthai taen patrida taen Ennan, ousan akropolin holaes taes naesou_.]

[274] Ibid. 2. 12 [Greek: _oud estin eipein ... hosa enybrizon te kai enaeselgainon_.]

[275] [Greek: _planon te apekaloun_] (Diod. x.x.xiv. 2. 14).

[276] Diodor. x.x.xiv. 3. 41.

[277] Ibid. 2. 39.

[278] Ibid., 2, 24.

[279] Liv. _Ep_. lv.; App. _Syr_. 68. Cf. Nitzsch _Die Gracchen_ p. 288.

[280] Diodorus describes him as an Achaean. Mahaffy (l.c.) suspects that he came from Eastern Asia Minor or Syria, where Achaeus occurs as a royal name. But the name also occurs in old Greece. One may instance the tragic poet of Eretria.

[281] [Greek: _kai boulae kai cheiri diapheron_] (Diod. x.x.xiv. 2. 16).

[282] Ibid. 2. 42.

[283] Florus ii. 7 (iii. 19). 6.

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