Note 97 — OF THE POPULOUSNESS OF ANCIENT NATIONS.[39] (continued 2)
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“Nec numero Hispanos, nec robore Gallos, nec calliditate Pœnos, nec artibus Græcos, nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis, ac terræ domestico nativoque sensu, Italos ipsos ac Latinos—superavimus.” (De harusp. resp., cap. 9.) The disorders of Spain seem to have been almost proverbial: “Nec impacatos a tergo horrebis Iberos.” (Virg. Georg., lib. 3.) The Iberi are here plainly taken by a poetical figure for robbers in general.