Note 21 — BOOK XV.
H. T. (Henry T.) Ryde translation
The Marseillais trace their origin to a colony of Phocians in the 1st year of the 43d Olympiad, 599 years b.c. It was the Massilia of the Romans, and called by Cicero the "mistress of Gaul," and by Pliny, the "mistress of education."—H. T. R.