...assembled his army after the passage of that difficult piece-of ^eady whieh4iad delayed him for four days, he descended, and reached the plains in three days'...its fatigues, that is, at the end of the valley of Ivr6a ; and I am confirmed in this opinion by the words that Polybius himself makes use of in the sixtieth...

...and fifty miles, which Polybius gives as the amount of the passage of the Alps, is to terminate. Wit think that there can be very little doubt that we...commencement of the plain, and at the spot where the army was ejicamped, in order to recover from its fatigues, that is, at the end of the valley of Ivrea ; and...

...plains in three days' march from the broken ground, which " would give eighteen days instead of fifteen. I think that " there can be very little doubt that...read eighteen " days instead of fifteen, and that the 150 miles are to be " completed at the commencement of the plain, and at the " spot where the army...

...there can be very little doubt that we must read eighteen " days instead of fifteen, and that the 150 miles are to be " completed at the commencement of...plain, and at the " spot where the army was encamped. Indeed, the enumera" tion he makes of the losses sustained by the army, and the " recapitulation of...

...a violent one, nothing less than an alteration in the text of Polybius. They say (p. 115): " I (we) think that there can be very little doubt that we must read eighteen days instead of fifteen" — "for (p. 116) there can be no doubt, upon his (Polybius') own shewing, that eighteen days must...