^{page 1 note 1} Of the twenty-one passages where women are specifically mentioned or play some active part (including the references to them in Cato's speech on the Oppian Law) nine occur in the first two books, and in each case the women are named. In the other thirty-three books women are named only five times.

^{page 1 note 2} ii. 40. 5–9.

^{page 1 note 3} ii. 13. 6.

^{page 2 note 1} iii. 44–8.

^{page 2 note 2} ii. 12. 2–4. Compare the romantic account of the old centurion, which is almost certainly fictitious, in ii. 23.

^{page 2 note 3} i. 41. 3.

^{page 2 note 4} xxxix. 8–19.

^{page 3 note 1} i. 48. 7.

^{page 3 note 2} i. 9. 16.

^{page 3 note 3} For Tarpeia see i. 11. 6–9.

^{page 4 note 1} iv. 9. 4–8.

^{page 4 note 2} xxvii. 15. 9–12. Compare also xxix. 4. 3–5.

^{page 4 note 3} viii. 18. 11.

^{page 4 note 4} xxxiv. 1. 7.

^{page 4 note 5} Inferior matrona suo sit, Prisce, marito: Non aliter fuerint femina virque pares. (Mart. viii. 12, vv. 3–4.)

^{page 4 note 6} xxxiv. 4. 15–16.

^{page 5 note 1} xxvi. 50.

^{page 5 note 2} xxxvi. 11. 2–3.

^{page 5 note 3} xxix. 23. 4; xxx. 12. 18.

^{page 6 note 1} xxx. 15. 14.

^{page 6 note 2} xxx. 14. 10.

^{page 6 note 3} xl. 4–5. 1.

^{page 6 note 4} For a possible exception see the story of Orgiago's wife: xxxviii. 24.

^{page 6 note 5} As they did a century later. See Pliny, Epist. 1. 14; Mart. xi. 168.

^{page 7 note 1} i. 57. 9.

^{page 7 note 2} See E. Wölfflin, ‘Zur Psychologie der Völker des Altertums, iv. Rom. Italien’ in Archiv für Lateinische Lexicographie und Grammatik, 1890; H. W. Litchfield, ‘National Exempla Virtutis in Roman Literature’, in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, xxv. 1914: Anmerkungen to R. Heinze, Vom Geist des Römertums (Leipzig, 1938).

^{page 8 note 1} v. 27. 8.