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CH. X.] NOTES. 81
8. mallet : oonseoutive subjunotive (" there -was no one of suoh a
nature as did not . . . ").
10. decurionum . . . decem primi : see note on 6, 1.
14. famam : "good name." conservatas velit: Cicero seems to
prefer the perfect (with esse omitted) to the more regular present
iafinitive, on the ground of rhythm.
«^ 15. decretum decurionum : the decree is here read in court ;
IpCioero did not include it in his speech as puWished.
19. qui peterent : some editions have ah iis before peterent, which
gives no satisfactory sense.
20. vellent : representing the present indicative of direct speech.
22. mallet : subjunctive in conseeutive clause.
23. antiqui : " of the old stamp." fingerent : subjunctive in
causal relative clause ; "since they formed a conception of," etc.
24. de tabulis : so. proscriptionis.
25. vacua : "as without an owner," the Roscii giving up their
claim and departing.
27. re inorata : "without having stated their case " ; oro origin-
ally meant " to speak," and this usage is retained here, and also in
the phrases orare causam, orator (properly a " speaker," not a
" pleader "), and in ars orandi ( = ars dicendi).
29. aliquanto lentius : sc. agentes, " then proceeding in a more
leisurely way they began to do nothing and to trifle with him."
X., §§27-29. — Sextus Eoscivs then fled for refuge to the house of
Caecilia at jRome, who protected him from his enemies. The latter
then resolved to accuse him of parricide, thinking that he wovld have
no advocates, owing to the power of Chrysogonus.
Ch. X. — 3. tNepotis sororem, Balearici filiam : the MSS. give
I Nepotis fliam, but this Caecilia was daugliter of Metellus Balearieus,
I and sister of Metellus Nepos. See 50, 34-36, and the notes there.
> honoris causa : see note on 2, 13.
4. usus erat : sc. familiariter.
6. exempli causa : " to serve as a pattern " ; our " for example "
is ut or velut in Latin.
9. hospiti : i.e. bound to lier by ties of hospitium ; see on 6, 5.
10. diligentia : = cura, vigilantia.
11. in reos . . . in proscriptos : brachylogy for in reorum album,
in proscriptorum tabiilas.
15. ut : explanatory of consi/ium, with consecutive subjunotive.
For nomen deferre see note on S, 8.
16. ad eam rem : "forthatpurpose." compararent : bg. pecunia.
17. subesset : subjunctive in relative clause dependent on the
subjunctive posset.
18. poterant : for the indicative, where the subjunctive might
have been expected in dependence on pugnarent, see note on 6, 17.
tempore ipso : " with the eiroumstances of the time astheirally"
(instrumental ablative).
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