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amicus: an honorary title given by the Roman Senate to friendly powers (§ 283 (185); 284 (185); 393. a (239. 1. N. 2); B. 168. 2. b; G. 206; H. 393. 8 (362. 2, 2); H-B. 319. ii 392. b.). — utoccuparet, to lay hands on. This clause is the object of persuadet§ 563 (331); B. 295. 1G. 546; H. 565 (498. ii); H-B. 502. 3. a); for the sequence of tenses, see § 485. e (287. e); B. 268. 3; G. 511. R. 1; H. 546 (495. ii); H-B. 491. 2;in English it would be expressed by the infin. — regnum: here, not hereditary authority, but personal rule, — what the Greeks called tyranny.


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