represent the same upon his coins." _(Pope's note_.) Libyan = African.


_Caesar graced with both Minervas, i.e.,_ by warlike and literary
genius; as the conqueror of Gaul and the writer of the 'Commentaries.'


_Scarce detested in his country's fate_. Whom even the enslaving of his
country scarce makes us detest.

_Epaminondas_ (died 362 B.C.), the maintainer of Theban independence.


_Timoleon_, of Corinth, who slew his brother when he found him aspiring
to be tyrant in the state (died 337 B.C.).


_Scipio_. The conqueror of Carthage, which was long the rival of Rome.


_Aurelius, i.e.,_ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 A.D.), Emperor of
Rome; one of the brightest characters in Roman history.


_Socrates_. The great Greek philosopher, who, in maintaining truth,
incurred the charge of infecting the young men of Athens with impiety,
and was put to death by being made to drink hemlock. His life and
teaching are known to us through the writings of his disciple, Plato.