§ 25.--
1: _haec res_: i.e. _hoc bellum contra patriam, haec civium caedes_.
2: _quandam--voluptatem_: “a kind of delight, (really) inconceivable.”
3: _ad--servavit_: “it was for this mad career that nature gave you
being, inclination trained you, fate reserved you:” distinguish
_amentia_, and _dementia_.
4: _non modo_, for the omission of _non_ after _non modo_, see Madvig.,
§ 461, C. When the sentence is negative, _non modo = non modo non_, the
second _non_ being omitted, if both sentences have the same verb, and if
the verb is contained in the second sentence, for the negative is thus
considered to belong conjointly to both sentences. Z. 724., b.
5: _otium_: “peace,” opposed to _bellum_.
6: _nefarium_: “unhallowed,” as involving _impietas contra patriam_.
7: _nanctus es_: “you have got together.” --The orator is _atque (ex)
derelictis ab non modo omni fortuna, verum etiam (a) spe_.
8: _conflatam_: a metaphor taken from metals, “smelted together,” hence
“collected.”
§ 26.--
1: _hic_: i.e. _inter ejusmodi hominum gregem_. --_qua--perfruere_:
“what gratification will you experience.” Notice the climax in this
sentence.
2: _ad--tui_: “it was for the earnest prosecution of this life that
these feats of endurance, which are made so much of, were practised.”
--_meditari_: is used passively: as _abominatus, amplexus, confessus,
detestatus, dimensus, exsecratus, moderatus, suetus_. M. 153. With
_meditari_: cp. μελετᾶν.
3: _ad--stuprum_: “to watch for an opportunity to commit an act of
debauchery.” = _ad tempus stupro opportunum observandum_. The infinitive
clauses _jacere, vigilare_, are in opposition with _labores_.
4: _ad--obeundum_: “to execute some daring deed.”
5: _otiosorum_: “the peaceable citizens.” Another reading is
_occisorum_.
6: _habes--omnium_: “you have (now) an opportunity of showing the
renowned endurance you have for withstanding hunger, cold, (and) a need
of all things:” cp. Sallust, Cat. C., 5: _corpus potiens inediae,
vigiliae, algoris, supra quam unquam credibile est_.
7: _quibus_: to be referred to _famis, frigoris, inopiae_, not to
_omnium rerum_.
§ 27.--
1: _tantum confeci_: “this much, I gained.”
2: _quum--reppuli_: at the last election, Cicero adopted these measures
especially aimed at Catiline: a bill to increase the penalty against
bribery (_ambitus_); by disarranging the plans of Catiline in putting
off the elections, and appearing in the Campus Martius in armour.
3: _exul--consul: latrocinium--bellum_: note the _paronomasia_.