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1. Cf. Livy, XXXVII, xxxii.

2. Plutarch, Les dicts notables des Lacedaemoniens, 217 H–218 A.

3. Livy, XXIV, xix; Cicero, De officiis, III, xvii; Xenophon, Cyropaedia.

4. Guicciardini, Histoire d’Italie, V, ii.

5. Montaigne confounds the sieges of Yvoy in the Ardennes with that of Dinan (1554).

6. Martin Du Bellay, Mémoires, II, and IX.

7. Ariosto, Orlando furioso, XV, 1.

8. Cicero, De officiis, III, x, 42.

9. Quintus Curtius (Rufus), IV, xiii.

10. Virgil, Aeneid, X, 752.