by the strongest possible evidence that Hannibal marched across the Little St Bernard about the beginning of October)'. Teuffel, Rom. L. 1, 500, asserts that Livy did not use Cato's Origines before the fourth decade, and Polybius not before Bk xxIII. But H. Peter on Val. Antias, p. CCCXIII., says―ego quidem in ea sententia persevero, ut in quibus rebus Polybius et Livius consentiant, eas a Livio ex ipso Polybio versa esse dicam itaque nec Caelius nec Valerius dux primarius Livio in hac (tertia) decade fuit-nam hunc locum obtinet Polybius—sed ut in quarta decade Claudius Quadrigarius et Valerius, ita in hac Caelius et Valerius in subsidium tantum vocati sunt.

1 Niebuhr notices Livy's critical honesty and accuracy in 21, ch. 46; 22, ch. 7; but his exaggeration in 22, 33, 9 nullius,

&c.; and his misstatement in 21, 19, 1 magis ex d. p. R. visa est, &c.