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Severe measures will be supported by the people. The humblest Citizens are stanch. The Senators are urged to act fearlessly: the consul will not fail them.
voces, remarks. eorum, on the part of those, etc. vereri . . . ut: § 564(331, f); B. 296, 2; G. 550, 2; 11.567, I (498, iii, N.1); H.-B. 502, 4. mea, etc.: observe the antithesis between mea summa cura and majore populi. . . voluntate.
ad, for. consentiunt, unite. ita . . ut, only to, etc. (lit. with this limitation that): see § 537, b (319, b); G. 552, R3; H-B. 521, 2, d. summam ordinis consilique, superiority in rank andprecedence in counsel, hujus ordinis (i.e. the Senate) limits dissensione in the sense of cum hoc, etc. For the long contest here alluded to, see Introduction, p. lxv. quam st etc., and if we keep this union, etc. confirmo, I assure, in a different sense from confirmatam: Latin style does not (as ours does) object to such repetitions with a variation in meaning. tribunos aerarios, deans if the tribes. The Roman people were divided into thirty-five tribes, local and territorial, like wards. These tribes were made the basis of the comitia centuriata, as well as of the comitia tributa. They served also as general administrative and financial divisions. From the latter character the name tribuni aerarii was given to their presiding officers. scribas: the scribae quaestorii (treasury clerks) formed an important and powerful corporation. As they were a permanent body, while the quaestors (treasurers) were elected annually, they had the real responsibility in the management of the treasury. sortis: the quaestors entered upon office on the Nones of December (Dec. 5); all other patrician magistrates on the first of January. The scribae had therefore come together in order to be present while the quaestors drew lots for their provinces.
