Note 7 — PREFACE.
D. (Daniel) Spillan translation
"Acquired."—This refers to the whole period antecedent to the time when Ap. Claudius carried the Roman arms beyond Italy against the Carthaginians; (2) extended, from that time till the fall of Carthage; (3) sinking, the times of the Gracchi; (4) gave way more and more, those of Sulla; (5) precipitate, those of Cæsar; (6) the present times, those of Augustus after the battle of Actium.—Stocker.