¹ Though one suspects that this comment will cause him little compunction, given the remark in the preface: ‘As I expected, my decisions to cite only the opening and closing words of passages of Polybius from which Livy derives … met with criticism from reviewers: I am unrepentant’.

² The lack of any reference to Levene's excellent study of Livian chronology in his 2010 monograph on the third decade is unfortunate, but is presumably due to its having appeared too late to be incorporated.