History of Julius Caesar Vol. 1 of 2 - Napoleon III

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Livius, XXXIII. 18.

463

During the siege of Rhodes, Demetrius had formed the design of delivering to the flames all the public buildings, one of which contained the famous painting of Ialysus, by Protogenes. The Rhodians sent a deputation to Demetrius to ask him to spare this masterpiece. After this interview, Demetrius raised the siege, sparing thus at the same time the town and the picture. (Aulus Gellius, XV. 31.)

464

In 555, twenty ships; in 556, twenty vessels with decks; in 563, twenty-five ships with decks, and thirty-six vessels. This last fleet of thirty-six vessels was destroyed, and yet the Rhodians were able to send to sea again, the same year, twenty vessels. In 584 they had forty vessels. (Titus Livius, XXXI. 46; XXXII. 16; XXXVI. 45; XXXVII. 9, 11, 12; XLII. 45.)

465

Pliny, XXXIV. 17.

466

Strabo, XIV. 2.

467

Athenæus, XII. 35, p. 461.

468

Titus Livius, XXIII. 34.

469

Titus Livius, XXIII. 40.

470

Titus Livius, XLI. 12, 17, 28. – The number of 80,000 men whom the Sardinians lost in the campaign of T. Gracchus, in 578 and 579, was given by the official inscription which was seen at Rome in the temple of the goddess Matuta. (Titus Livius, XLI. 28.)

471

Festus, p. 322, edit. O. Müller. – Titus Livius, XLI. 21.

472

See Heeren, vol. IV. sect. I. chap. ii. – Polybius, I. 79. – Strabo, V. ii. 187. – Diodorus Siculus, V. 15. – Titus Livius, XXIX. 36.

473

Titus Livius, XXX. 38.

474

Strabo, V. 2.

475

Diodorus Siculus, V. 14. – The Corsicans having revolted, in 573, had 2,000 slain. (Titus Livius, XL. 34.) – In 581, they lost 7,000 men, and had more than 1,700 prisoners. (Titus Livius, XLII. 7.)

476

Strabo, V. 2.

477

Pliny, Natural History, III. 6.

478

Diodorus Siculus, V. 13. – In 573, the Corsicans were taxed by the Romans at 1,000,000 pounds of wax, and at 200,000 in 581. (Titus Livius, XL. 34; XLII. 7.)

479

Cicero, Second Oration against Verres, II. ii. 74. – The oxen furnished hides, employed especially for the tents; the sheep, an excellent wool for clothing.

480

Cicero, Second Oration against Verres, II. III. 70.

481

Titus Livius, XXV. 31.

482

Polybius, I. 17, 18.

483

Polybius, IX. 27. – Strabo, VI. 2.

484

See what is said by Titus Livius (XXIX. 26) and Polybius (I. 41, 43, 46). – Florus, II. 2.

485

See the work of the Duke of Serra di Falco, Antichità della Sicilia.

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