Note 1 — URBIS RŌMAE VIRĪ INLŪSTRĒS Complete text as printed (continued 2)
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02.1 = ortus, nātus.
102.2 simultātēs gerere = ‘to carry on a feud.’
102.3 ‘to aim at.’
102.4 ‘champion.’
102.5 The Brutus of selection IX.
102.6 Utinam vīverēs! ‘O that you were yet alive.’ The subjunctive here expresses a wish or prayer; cf. l. 29.
102.7 ‘you’re fast asleep.’
102.8 cōnsiliī cōnscia: ‘who was aware of,’ etc.
102.9 ‘sleeping-room.’
102.10 cultellum tōnsōrium: ‘a barber’s knife.’
102.11 ‘nails.’
102.12 ‘maids.’
102.13 ‘scold.’
102.14 ‘heedless,’ ‘random.’
102.15 sī . . . cessisset: ‘if your plan did not turn out according to your expectations.’ Join with what follows.
103.1 ‘bloody.’
103.2 ‘hill.’
103.3 sepelīre = ‘to dispose of a body,’ whether by burial or by cremation.
103.4 quōque = ‘and in order that.’
103.5 ‘cloak.’
103.6 ‘the dead man.’
103.7 ‘thoroughly aroused.’
103.8 ‘torn (from the body).’
103.9 ‘coals.’
103.10 See Vocab., Catō.
103.11 ‘woman though she was.’