Note 3 — URBIS RŌMAE VIRĪ INLŪSTRĒS Complete text as printed (continued 2)
Reading edition
The following selections have been edited for rapid reading or reading at sight:
96.3 ‘ancestors.’
96.4 ‘wart.’
96.5 ‘nose’; cf. nasal.
96.6 ciceris grānō: ‘a tiny chickpea.’
96.7 = ut.
96.8 ‘culture.’
96.9 ‘had spread.’
97.1 ‘applied himself.’
97.2 ‘engaged.’
97.3 ‘courts.’
97.4 ‘pleaded.’
97.5 ‘followed,’ ‘courted’ (cf. sequor).
97.6 ‘independence.’
97.7 ‘freedman.’
97.8 ‘fearing.’
97.9 ‘most eloquent.’
97.10 ‘was being deprived.’
97.11 annōnae difficultās: ‘a lack of corn.’
97.12 ‘courtesy.’
97.13 ‘having had proof of.’
97.14 ‘lawyers.’
97.15 ‘crushed.’
97.16 ‘great-grandfather.’
97.17 Cf. XXVII, 19.
97.18 ‘campaign.’
97.19 que here = ‘but.’
98.1 ‘though disabled.’
98.2 bis . . . profugus = bis vincula ēius profūgit.
98.3 nūllō nōn: ‘every.’
98.4 ‘chains.’
98.5 ‘shackles.’
98.6 ‘slain’; lit., ‘stabbed from below.’
98.7 ‘fastened’ (to the stump of his arm).
98.8 ‘great-grandson.’
98.9 ‘defeat’; a technical term of Roman politics.
98.10 ‘butcher.’
98.11 Āctum erat dē: ‘it would have been all up with.’
98.12 in . . . incidisset: ‘happened in the days of.’
98.13 Cicero.
98.14 ‘prowess.’
98.15 ‘culprit.’
98.16 ‘by a general downfall.’
98.17 ‘conspicuous’; lit., ‘shining.’
98.18 ‘having first said.’
98.19 from gīgnō, ‘to beget.’
99.1 ‘life.’
99.2 ‘corpses.’
99.3 Sc. concidisset.
99.4 ut . . . dīspexerim: ‘(as to say) that I should have of my own accord clearly perceived.’
99.5 indictā causā: ‘with their cause unpleaded,’ i.e. without giving them a trial.
99.6 ‘mourning.’
99.7 veste mūtātā: i.e. changing their ordinary attire, which was white, for darker robes of mourning.
99.8 Tulliō . . . interdīcerētur: lit., ‘that a ban should be laid on Tullius in respect of fire and water,’ i.e. that he should be outlawed, and every one forbidden to aid him, even with the necessaries of life.
100.1 Obviam . . . est: ‘all went to meet him.’
100.2 ‘trouble.’
100.3 ‘strove.’
100.4 ‘cherished,’ ‘supported.’
100.5 The reference is to the Second Triumvirate.
100.6 trānsversīs itineribus: i.e. by out of the way paths.
100.7 modo . . . modo: ‘now . . . now.’
100.8 ‘disgust.’
100.9 ‘litter,’ ‘sedan chair.’
100.10 ‘leaning out’; sc. eī, dat. of disadvantage with praecīsum est.
100.11 ‘neck.’
101.1 plūs . . . scrībendō: ‘he devoted more of his time to practical affairs than to literature.’
101.2 ‘sorrow.’
101.3 etiam ōtiōsus: ‘even though at ease,’ i.e. not burdened with official duties. ōtiōsus here, as often = prīvātus.
101.4 ‘benefit.’
101.5 ‘eloquence.’ Sc. Latīnae, to be derived from Latīnārum.
101.6 ‘became.’
101.7 ex . . . oportēre: we should say, ‘of two evils choose the less.’
101.8 ‘extract’; lit., ‘pluck.’
101.9 ‘wittily.’
101.10 ‘son-in-law.’
101.11 On this day the consuls went out of office.
101.12 ‘wondrous.’
101.13 causal subjunctive.