Note 1 — URBIS RŌMAE VIRĪ INLŪSTRĒS Complete text as printed
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38.1 prīmus dēvīcit: ‘was the first (Roman) to conquer.’ Cf. prīmus ēgit, l. 12. H 497, and 1 (443 and 1): A 191: G 325, R. 6: B 239. Such a phrase as prīmus fuit dēvincere is never used by good writers.
38.2 ‘These’; cf. p. 4, n. 3.
38.3 a collective noun: ‘the Romans.’
38.4 Sc. hostium.
38.5 = ‘and as a consequence.’
38.6 Cf. rēgius, I, 17. The Romans applied the term praetor to the commander of any foreign force.
38.7 Sc. nāvis. At this time Carthaginian ships generally had five banks of oars. In building the fleet commanded by Duilius, the Romans, it is said, took as their model a Carthaginian vessel which had been wrecked on the coast of Italy.
38.8 mergō; sc. sunt.
38.9 Cf. p. 14, n. 1.
38.10 ‘were supreme’; cf. p. 23, n. 1.
38.11 In commemoration also of the victory the Columna Rōstrāta was erected in the Forum.
38.12 nē . . . daret: a clause of purpose, dependent on veritus: H 567 (498, III) M 897: A 331, f: G 550: B 296, 2.
38.13 classis āmissae: ‘for losing the fleet’; see p. 5, n. 15.
39.1 Cf. p. 12, n. 5.
39.2 Why accusative?
39.3 causal subjunctive.
39.4 quīn with a subjunctive of result is regularly used after negative expressions of doubt: H 595, 1 (504, 3, 2): M 913: A 332, g, R.: G 555, 2: B 298.
39.5 eō . . . adficiēbātur: ‘in that way . . . was punished.’ How literally?
39.6 rē male gestā: ‘if unsuccessful.’ How literally?