2: _factu_: give rules for the use of the supines: H. 547.
3: _judicarem_: this tense in the _protasis_ with the plupf. in the
_apodosis_, denotes that the action is going on simultaneously.
4: _unius--horae_: “the enjoyment of a single hour.” _Usura_: properly
“interest” paid for the _use_ of capital.
5: _gladiatori isti_: contemptuously.
6: _etenim_: “and (well may I make this assertion), for:” cp. καὶ γάρ.
7: _summi viri_: referred to the _magistratus; clarissimi cives_, to the
_viri privati_.
8: _honestarunt_=_decoraverunt_: “graced.”
§ 30.--
1: _quamquam_ = καίτοι, corrective: “and yet.”
2: _qui--dissimulent_: “of such a character that they either are blind
to those evils which threaten us, or profess blindness in regard to the
things they see.” _Qui_ = _tales ut_: H. 501: this explains this
subjunctive.
3: _qui--aluerunt_ = _hi--aluerunt_: not to be connected with _nonnulli
sunt_, as this would require _aluerint_.
4: _si--animadvertissem_: “if I had punished him,”: with such a meaning
understand _supplicio_: the preposition _in_ is necessary when the
meaning is “to punish with an authoritative and steady hand.” _regie_:
“in a tyrannical manner.”
5: _pervenerit_: fut. perf.
6: _paulisper--posse_: “may for a season be repressed, but cannot for
ever be suppressed”; _reprimo_: to hold in check merely for a short
time; _comprimo_: to completely check.
7: _se ejecerit_ scil. _ex urbe_.
8: _ceteros naufragos_: “the rest of his shipwrecked band of followers”:
i.e., shipwrecked in character and fortune by reason of their excesses.
9: _tam adulta pestis_: “this fully developed plague-poison”: _adulta_:
from root _ul, ol, al_, “high.”