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XXXVII. Eundem Germaniae sinum proximi Oceano Cimbri tenent, parva nunc civitas, sed gloria ingens; veterisque famae lata vestigia manent, utraque ripa castra ac spatia, quorum ambitu nunc quoque metiaris molem manusque gentis et tam magni exitus fidem. Sexcentesimum et quadragesimum annum urbs nostra agebat, cum primum Cimbrorum audita sunt arma, Caecilio Metello et Papirio Carbone consulibus.

An eis, quae iuventute geruntur et viribus? Nullaene igitur res sunt seniles, quae vel infirmis corporibus animo tamen administrentur? Nihil ergo agebat Q. Maximus, nihil L. Paulus, pater tuus, socer optimi viri fili mei?

He had two sermons to prepare for Sunday next, and he threw his mind into them as he had into the battle he had just won. "Hoc agebat." His reverence in the late battle showed himself a strategist, and won without bringing up his reserves; if he had failed with Mr. Lacy he had another arrow behind in his quiver. He had been twice to the mayor and claimed a coroner's jury to sit on a suicide.

Juvene usurpante. Dom. was now eighteen years old, cf. His. 4, 2: nondum ad curas intentus, sed stupris et adulteriis filium principis agebat. Is, sc. Mucianus. Vicesimae legioni. Decessor. Predecessor. It was Roscius Coelius. His. 1, 60. Legatis consularibus. Governors or Proconsuls. With reference to this consular authority, the same were called proconsules. Cf. note, H. 1, 49.

These three men are very frequently mentioned together by Cicero; cf. below, 43, Lael. 18. NIHIL AGEBANT: observe that nihil agebat is put at the beginning of the first sentence, nihil agebant at the end of the second; chiasmus.

Agricola naturali prudentia, quamvis inter togatos, facile justeque agebat.

"The tongue is curved upon the palate; they turn about their words in the mouth, and make a hissing sound with their teeth." He then goes on to say that all the time of his absence his mind was full of thoughts of his own people in Italy, wherefore he sought leave to return at once. "Curam agebat Medicus ex constituto Medicorum Lutetianorum." De Vita Propria, ch. xl. p. 137.

From these fears he looks for a shelter in the sylvan shades; he envies the ideal past of the golden world. Aureus hanc vitam in terris Saturnus agebat! "Oh, for the fields! Oh, for Spercheius and Taygetus, where wander the Lacaenian maids! Oh, that one would carry me to the cool valleys of Haemus, and cover me with the wide shadow of the boughs!

'Illum jura potius ponere quam de jure respondere dixisses; eique appropinquabant clientes tanquam judici potius quam advocato. Mackenzie's Works, ed. 1716, vol. i. part 2, p. 7. 'Opposuit ei providentia Nisbetum: qui summâ doctrinâ consummatâque eloquentiâ causas agebat, ut justitiae scalae in aequilibrio essent; nimiâ tamen arte semper utens artem suam suspectam reddebat.