§ 22.--
1: _quamquam_: cp. καίτοι; “and yet,” used here as a corrective
particle.
2: _te_; scil. _sperandumne sit fore ut_: “is it to be expected that
anything will break your resolve?” Note the emphatic positions of _te_,
_tu_, _tu_, _tu_. What feelings do these interrogations express?
3: _duint_ = _dent_: often used in religious formulas. Give the
construction of _utinam_: H., 483, I.
4: _animum induxeris_: Cicero uses the form _animum inducere_ (except in
Pro Sulla, 30, 83) and Livy always _in animum in pucere_.
5: _quanta--impendeat_: “what a storm of unpopularity threatens me, if
not at present, on account of the memory of your crimes being fresh,
still in the future time.” --_recenti_ = _memoria_: abl. of cause. --_in
posteritatem_ = _in posterum tempus_. _impendeat_: indirect question.
6: _sed--sejungatur_: “but (the unpopularity you threaten) willingly
will I undergo (literally, pays me well) provided the loss which you
forbode is confined to myself and does not involve danger to the State.”
--_tanti_: genitive of price. The subject of _est_ is _invidiam istam
mihi impendere_.
7: _ut--ut--ut_: these three clauses are explained by the three
beginning with _aut, aut, aut_. --_pudor_ = αἰδώς; “a sense of shame,
or modesty.”
§ 23.--
1: _conflare_: a metaphor taken from metals: literally, “to smelt
together:” hence “to heap upon.”
2: _recta_, scil. _via_: “straightway.”
3: _vix--vix_: note the emphatic positions: “hard will it be for me to
bear the weight of the unpopularity caused by you, if you go into exile
by the order of the consul,” --_sermones_: “the censure:” cp. our
expression “to be the talk of the town.” _feceris_: see note 4, § 6.
4: _sui--mavis_: “but if, however, you prefer to consult my praise and
glory.” _laus--gloria_ are originally derived from the same root CLU,
“to hear:” _laus_ = _(c)lau(d)s_: _gloria = clu-oria_.
5: _exsulta--latrocinio_: “triumph in your impious bandit war.” _latro_:
properly a mercenary soldier who serves for pay (λατρεία): afterwards,
“a brigand.” _impio_: as being against his native land: cp. _pietas erga
patriam_, “patriotism.”
§ 24.--
1: _quamquam_: see note 1, § 22. _invitem_: rhetorical question: H. 529.
2: _qui--armati?_ “to wait for you arms near Forum Amelium.” _ad_
before the name of towns denotes (1) direction; (2) proximity, as in
this passage. Towns were called _Fora_, by the Romans, where the praetor
held his circuits for administering justice and where markets were
established. The town mentioned here was in Etruria between the Armenta
(_Fiora_) and Marta, not from the sea. It is now called _Monte Alto_. It
derived its name from one Aurelius, who built the _Via Aurelia_ from
Rome to Pisa.
_praestolarentur_: the word _praestolari_, is “to wait for” said of a
subordinate who performs some services for a superior.
3: _pactam--diem_: from what verb is _pactam_? --_dies_, in the sense of
a “fixed day” is usually feminine.
4: _aquilam_: the same that Marius carried in his Cimbric war. Catiline
fell beside it at Pistoria (Gall. Cat. C. 59). A silver eagle with
extended wings, and on the top of a spear was the ensign of the whole
legion. The _signa_ were the standards of the _manipuli_ and the
_vexillum_ is the standard of the cavalry.
5: _cui--fuit_: “for which the secret place where you concocted your
crimes was prepared in your house.” The eagle was usually kept in a part
of the _praetorium_ which was consecrated (_sacrarium_).
6: _tu--solebas_: scil. _credendumne sil fore_: “is it to be believed
that you could any longer be without this, to which you when setting out
to slaughter were wont to pay your vows?”
7: _altaribus_: only plural in classical Latin.