Note 3 — URBIS RŌMAE VIRĪ INLŪSTRĒS Complete text as printed
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80.3 See Vocab., Pompēius.
80.4 The reference is to the war between Marius and Sulla. See selections XXIV and XXV.
80.5 Cf. iuvenī, l. 7. We should say ‘the younger.’ He was at this time but nineteen years of age.
80.6 hunc . . . suscēpit: ‘undertook to kill him.’ How literally? For occīdendum, see p. 2, n. 18.
80.7 dum, though meaning ‘while’ (cf. p. xx, G 2), takes the subjunctive here because of the informal indir. disc. Terenti said: fīlium . . . suscipiam dum aliī incenditis.
80.8 solitō hilarius: ‘with (even) more gaiety than usual.’ solitō is here a noun. Neuter adj. and part. are often so used. For its case, see p. 10, n. 18.
80.9 quā anteā: sc. ūsus erat.
80.10 percutiō.
81.1 ‘proved himself.’
81.2 See p. 25, n. 6.
81.3 objective gen. (p. 14, n. 15) with the part. temperāns, which here = a simple adj. So somnī is obj. gen. with parcus.
81.4 Sc. erat.
81.5 abl. of specification.
81.6 eī venientī: ‘(as a mark of respect) to him when approaching.’ eī is a dat. of advantage with adsurgere.
81.7 After quem, whose antecedent is Carbō, l. 31, this word might have been omitted without loss of clearness. In fact, such omission is the more usual construction.
81.8 quae . . . fuisset: causal. Note that in forming the pluperfect subjunctive certain writers often use fuisset for esset.
81.9 What were the exact words of Sthenius?
82.1 parcō.
82.2 ‘(being then) a young man.’ Cf. p. 44, n. 12.
82.3 exercitū dīmissō . . . exspectāre = exercitum dīmittere et . . . exspectāre.
82.4 Cf. p. 13, n. 12.
82.5 percellō.
82.6 Quintus Caecilius Metellus, proconsul in Spain 79-76 B.C.
82.7 senī: ‘because he was old.’
82.8 multīs . . . concurrentibus: the abl. abs. here denotes both time and cause; see p. xxiii, K 6. The prefix in concurrentibus conveys the idea of ‘from every side.’
82.9 in . . . erat = ab hostibus captus est.
82.10 altercantēs partiuntur: lit., ‘wrangling they divided’ = ‘they wrangled about the division.’
83.1 Why subjunctive?
83.2 ‘though already old.’ The thought is that luxury and effeminacy are especially unbecoming to old age.
83.3 See p. xx, H 2. What is the meaning of the change of tense in dīripuissent?
83.4 Cf. p. 10, n. 10.
83.5 See p. xxiii, K 10.
83.6 neque . . . facultās: ‘but no opportunity,’ etc.
84.1 ā tergō: ‘in the rear.’ See p. 11, n. 10.
84.2 obsideō.
84.3 ā quō . . . petierat: ‘whom he had asked to help him.’ How literally? ut adiuvāret sē is a substantive clause of purpose and object of petierat. See p. 7, n. 20.
84.4 ērigō.
84.5 aequē . . . facere: lit., ‘because he thought it an equally fine thing both to conquer kings and to create them.’ The expression is somewhat careless. We would say: ‘as glorious to create kings as to conquer them.’ aequē pulchrum is predicate, et vincere . . . et facere subject to esse.
84.6 prīmus . . . domuit: cf. p. 38, n. 1.
84.7 iūre victōriae: ‘by right of (i.e. on the strength of) his victory.’
84.8 ‘turning’; lit., ‘having turned himself.’ Cf. n. on cingitur, XIII, l. 29.
84.9 ‘the City,’ i.e. Rome.
84.10 Cf. p. xvii, D 1.
84.11 quod . . . praebuerant: ‘the fact that the conquest of (the) three parts,’ etc. Cf. p. 5, n. 15, and p. xxiv, L 4.
85.1 ‘something which’; its antecedent is the clause prīmum . . . triumphāvit below.
85.2 With quem glōriae, sc. fīnem habuit.
85.3 The famous C. Julius Caesar, for whom see next selection.
85.4 quod . . . posset: ‘because (as men said) the one,’ etc. For the subjunctive, see p. xxi, H 4.
85.5 hīc . . . ille: ‘the one (Caesar) . . . the other (Pompey).’
85.6 īnfēstō exercitū: abl. of accompaniment: H 474, 2, N. 1 (419, III, 1, 1): M 634: A 243, a, N.: G 392, R. 1: B 222, 1.
85.7 autem contrasts negārent with praecēpisset. There is a contrast also between servī and medicus.
85.8 Ergō . . . Pompēius? The force of this sentence can be given only by a free rendering, thus: ‘Shall it be said, then, that Pompey would not be alive, had not Lucullus ruined himself by his luxury?’
86.1 Virīs . . . habēbat: ‘he highly honored learned men.’
86.2 audiō, like our ‘hear,’ is often used of listening to lectures or to teachers.
86.3 quod . . . labōrārent: i.e. because he had the gout.
86.4 cōnsule . . . ingressūrō: ‘whenever the consul,’ etc.; a temporal abl. abs.
86.5 Subjunctive in substantive clauses of result: see p. xix, F 3.
86.6 infinitive, because the clause in which it stands is in apposition to hōc. This use of the infin. is common.
86.7 quamvīs sīs: concessive subjunctive: H 586, II (515, III): M 875: A 313, a: G 606: B 308.