Note 41 — Chapter VIII · THE CONQUEST OF CENTRAL ITALY

[This is the Papirius Cursor of whom Livy g writes the glowing eulogy we have quoted in the preceding Volume, Chapter LVII, where Livy claims that Papirius Cursor—as the contemporary of Alexander and the general whom he would have met had he attacked Rome instead of Persia—would have equalled the Macedonian and driven him out of Italy.]