L. VIVES.
ALtercations (a) and [For before, they did but wrangle, reuile, and raile, their fights were only in words, no weapons. (b) Latium being associate] when as the Senate had set vp M. Li∣uius drusus tribune against the power of the Gentlemen, who had as then the iudging of all causes, through Gracchus his law, Drusus to strengthen the senates part the more, drew all the seuerall nations of Italy to take part with him, vpon hope of the possessing the citty, which hope the Italians catching hold vpon, and being frustrate of it by Drusus his sudden death, first the Picenians tooke armes, and after them the Vestines, Marsians, Latines, Pelignians, Maru∣cians Lucanes, and Samnits Sext. Iul. Caesar, & L. Marcius Philippus being consulls: in the yeare of the citty, DCLXII. They fought often with diuers fortunes. At last, by seuerall generalls, * 1.1 the people of Italy were all subdued. The history is written by Liuy, Florus, Plutarch, Oro∣sius, Velleius, Appian (b) asociats] the Latins begun the stirre resoluing to kill the consulls, Caesar and Philip vpon the Latine feast daies, (c) all the creatures] Orosi. lib. 5. The heards about this time fell into such a madnesse that the hostility following was here-vpon coniectured, and many with teares fore-told the ensuing calamities. (d) a prodigious signe▪ Here the text is diuers∣ly written in copies, but all to one purpose.