castra sunt, etc.: an enumeration of the circumstances which make a mild policy no longer possible. faucibus, narrow pass, leading north from Etruria, through the Apennines. conlocata: § 495 (291, b); B. 337, 2; G. 250, a.2; H. 538, 4 (47 I, 6, N.1); H.-B. 320, iii, 248. jam, at once. erit verendum, etc., I shall have to fear, I suppose (ironical), that all good citizens will fail to say (lit. will not say) that I have acted too late rather than that anybody will say that I have acted too cruelly, i.e. I shall have to fear that I shall be accused of cruelty rather than slackness. ne non . . . dicat: § 564 (331,f); B. 296, 2, a; G. 550, 2; H. 567, 2 (498, iii, N.2); H.-B. 502, 4. boni (sc. dicant): here, as usual, the well-intentioned, i.e. those who held the speaker's views. ego: opposed to omnes boni (1.19, above). factum esse: § 486, b and N. (288, d); B. 270, 2, a; G. 280, a.2; H.-B. 582, 3, a, footnote 2. oportuit: § 522, a (311, c) ; B. 304, 3, a; G. 597, a.3, a; H. 583 (51 I, I, N.') ; H-B. 582, 3, a. denique, i.e. then, and not before. jam, at length. fateatur: for mood, see § 537, 2 (319, 2); B. 284, 2; G. 631, I; H. 589, ii, 591 (509, 1); H.-B. 521, I.
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