I dictated the bill number.
After breakfast Napoleon in de Beausset's presence dictated his order of the day to the army.
Already at Cherasco and Leoben he had dictated the preliminaries of peace to the courts of Turin and Vienna quite independently of the French Directory.
He had then marched to Heraeon on the Propontis, and had dictated a peace to Cersobleptes.
If these lines were dictated by a jealousy of the growing ascendancy of Ennius, the life of Naevius must have been prolonged considerably beyond 204, the year in which Ennius began his career as an author in Rome.
