1.
The citizens congratulated on their deliverance.
vitam, lives: the plural would rarely be used in Latin. bona, estates (landed property); fortunas, goods (personal property).
nascendi . . . condicio, the lot of birth. illum: Romulus, who, after his death, was deified and identified with the Sabine god of war, Quirinus. urbi, etc.: dat. with subjectos. idem (plun), I. . . have also, etc.: § 298, b (195, e); B. 248, I G. 310; H. 508, 3 (451, 3); H-B. 270, a. eorum, i.e. of the swords.
Story of the arrest. The conspirators watched: their attempts to tamper with the Allobroges disclosed to Cicero: the arrest at the Mulvian Bridge: seizure of incriminating letters.
inlustrata, patefacta, comperta: the anticlimax is only apparent, for comperta expresses the most difficult as well as the most important of the three acts. vobis: opposed to in senatu (1.8). investigata, traced out (observe the figure). exspectatis, are waiting to hear. ut, ever since. possemus: § 575, b (334, b); B. 300,2; G.467; cf. H. 642, 3 (523, ii, i, N.).
I. Exordium
The citizens congratulated on their deliverance.
vitam, lives: the plural would rarely be used in Latin. bona, estates (landed property); fortunas, goods (personal property).
nascendi . . . condicio, the lot of birth. illum: Romulus, who, after his death, was deified and identified with the Sabine god of war, Quirinus. urbi, etc.: dat. with subjectos. idem (plun), I. . . have also, etc.: § 298, b (195, e); B. 248, I G. 310; H. 508, 3 (451, 3); H-B. 270, a. eorum, i.e. of the swords.
II. Narratio
Story of the arrest. The conspirators watched: their attempts to tamper with the Allobroges disclosed to Cicero: the arrest at the Mulvian Bridge: seizure of incriminating letters.
inlustrata, patefacta, comperta: the anticlimax is only apparent, for comperta expresses the most difficult as well as the most important of the three acts. vobis: opposed to in senatu (1.8). investigata, traced out (observe the figure). exspectatis, are waiting to hear. ut, ever since. possemus: § 575, b (334, b); B. 300,2; G.467; cf. H. 642, 3 (523, ii, i, N.).
