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209.6. minus [sibi] confideret, felt itself weakest. 209.8.

eis: dat. with liceret. 209.11.

quos inter = eos inter quos. 209.14.

atque, than, as often after alius.—oportuerit: for oportuit of the direct, implying the nonfulfilment of the duty; see § 522. a (311. c); B. 304. 3. a; G. 597. R. 3; H. 583 (511. 1. N. 3); H-B. 582. 3. a. 209.15.

renuntiatum: renuntiare is the technical term for the act of a magistrate who, after an election, formally declares the result, and thus "creates" the new official. In this case one brother had declared the other elected after a sham election by an illegal convention.—vivo utroque, when both are living. 209.18.

intermissis magistratibus, there being a vacancy in the magistracy; this phrase signifies that an interval occurred between the term of one magistrate and the due election of his successor. Valetiacus (208 22) had illegally appointed his brother Cotus to be his successor. The priests promptly declared the office vacant and appointed Convictolitavis to fill the position until a regular election could again be held. In such a case at Rome (as had recently occurred twice, B.C. 55 and 52),the patrician senators appointed an interrex by virtue of the sacred authority residing in them. Caesar here, accordingly, recognizes the likeness to a Roman precedent. 209.19.

obtinere, to hold againstob) the rival claimant. See note on 2 1.


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