Note 12 — URBIS RŌMAE VIRĪ INLŪSTRĒS Complete text as printed (continued 2)
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103.12 See Vocab., Hispānia.
103.13 studiīs vacābat: ‘had time for (i.e. devoted himself to) study.’
104.1 At Caesar’s death he was governor of Cisalpine Gaul. Antony carried a law allotting this province to himself, and then undertook to expel Brutus.
104.2 plumbeīs lāminīs: ‘leaden plates.’
104.3 ‘arm.’
104.4 ‘divers.’
104.5 ‘by swimming across.’
104.6 ‘doves.’
104.7 ‘hunger.’
104.8 ‘especially.’
104.9 ‘(being) wounded.’
104.10 = amīcitiā.
104.11 ‘cloak.’
104.12 ‘hilt.’
104.13 ‘hesitate.’
105.1 ‘marks.’
105.2 ‘of Salernum,’ a town in Campania; the modern Salerno.
105.3 ‘though tortured.’
105.4 ‘by a back door.’
105.5 ‘couch.’
105.6 Quantī . . . est: ‘What marvelous manhood it shows.’
105.7 A philosopher of the first century A.D.
105.8 ‘stripped of.’
105.9 ‘to one or the other,’ i.e. to one, but not to both.
106.1 ‘he met,’ i.e. he answered.
106.2 ‘prisoners of war.’ Cf. dēdere, ‘to surrender.’
106.3 Julius Caesar, like the later emperors, was deified after his death.
106.4 ‘sacrificial victims.’
106.5 ‘slaughtered.’
106.6 ‘pleasure.’
106.7 centiēs (sc. centēna mīlia) sēstertium = ‘ten million sesterces,’ or about four hundred thousand dollars. Cf. p. 88, n. 8.
106.8 māgnificam . . . Antōniō: ‘under other circumstances truly splendid, but to Antony quite commonplace.’
106.9 ‘course.’
106.10 ‘vinegar.’
106.11 ‘pearls.’
106.12 ‘melts,’ ‘dissolves.’
106.13 ‘throne.’
106.14 ‘asp.’
107.1 = ostendit.
107.2 ‘gentleness.’
107.3 ‘the sixth,’ counting from March, with which, it is said, the Roman year originally began.
107.4 Compos . . . meōrum: ‘Now that I have gained my heart’s desire,’ which had been to avenge his uncle’s death.
107.5 ‘Nay.’
107.6 commissum īrī is fut. infin. pass. of committō, and = ‘was sure to be (lit. was going to be) handed over,’ i.e. if he resigned.
108.1 ‘met.’
108.2 ‘retinue.’
108.3 ‘substitute.’
108.4 ‘wounds.’
108.5 ‘blushed.’
108.6 ‘artisan.’
108.7 ‘raven.’
108.8 ‘Hail!’
108.9 = sēstertiōrum.
108.10 = dōnum.
108.11 ‘parrot.’
108.12 ‘cobbler.’
108.13 ‘outlay.’
108.14 ‘have come to naught.’
108.15 ‘added’: lit., ‘wove in.’
108.16 quantī . . . ēmerat: ‘at a higher price than he had paid before.’
108.17 ‘offer.’
109.1 ‘paper.’
109.2 ‘scratched off,’ ‘wrote.’
109.3 Examples of the historical infinitive, so called because it is especially common in historical writing. It is to be translated by an imperfect or perfect indicative.
109.4 = et . . . et.
109.5 ‘purse.’
109.6 ‘francs.’
109.7 ‘steward.’
109.8 ‘whispered.’
109.9 ‘eels.’
109.10 ‘fish-pond.’
109.11 ‘food.’
109.12 ‘freed.’
109.13 ‘night-owl.’
109.14 = sēstertiōs.
110.1 ‘executioner,’ ‘butcher.’
110.2 ‘size.’
110.3 ‘style.’
110.4 ‘furniture.’
110.5 ‘granddaughters.’
110.6 ‘made of brick.’
110.7 ‘finery.’
111.1 excubiās . . . indīxit: ‘ordered watches to be set.’
111.2 Often used like our ‘to cut a long story short,’ ‘in short.’
111.3 barbā . . . submissō: ‘letting his beard grow.’
111.4 ‘mirror’ (of metal, generally bronze or silver).
111.5 ‘comedy.’
111.6 ‘conclusion.’ Latin plays regularly close with an appeal of the actors to the spectators to grant them ‘loud and prolonged applause.’