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T., as usual, avoids the technical way of expressing the relation. Ad verbum, contubernium, cf. note, His. 1, 43. Others make aestimaret==dignum aestimaret, and contubernio abl. of price. Cf. Doed. and Dr. Licenter segniter, sc. agens. Licenter refers to voluptates, segniter to commeatus. Commeatus==furloughs, absence from duty.
Careful and prudent, cf. our author's character of the same commander, His. 2, 25: cunctator natura, etc. Approbavit==fecit, ut ei probarentur. Dr. It is a constructio praegnans. He obtained the first rudiments of a military education under Paullinus, and he gained his approbation. Electus aestimaret. Young men of rank and promise were thus associated with Roman commanders. Cf. Suet., Caes. 2.
Scilicet sublime et erectum ingenium pulchritudinem ac speciem excelsae magnaeque gloriae vehementius, quam caute, appetebat: mox mitigavit ratio et aetas: retinuitque, quod est difficillimum, ex sapientia modum. V. Prima castrorum rudimenta in Britannia Suetonio Paullino, diligenti ac moderato duci, approbavit, electus, quem contubernio aestimaret.
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