[Footnote 103: Rex regia arma fero (says Romulus, in the
first consecration) .... bina postea (continues Livy, i. 10)
inter tot bella, opima parta sunt spolia, adeo rara ejus
fortuna decoris. If Varro (apud Pomp Festum, p. 306, edit.
Dacier) could justify his liberality in granting the opime
spoils even to a common soldier who had slain the king or
general of the enemy, the honor would have been much more
cheap and common]