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For mixti, cf. 4: locum mixtum. For copiis in this sense, 22: annuis copiis. For the other sense, viz. forces, 24: copiis, note. Hinc hinc==on this side on that. Cf. note G. 14: illum illam. Victus. Al. auctus. Ad manus et arma. Ang. to arms. Oppugnasse depends on fama. Their preparations were great. Castella adorti is the means by which they metum addiderant, i.e. had inspired additional fear.
Tandem domicilium posuit Venetiis, ubi non a Senatoribus modo, ut mos Venetus habet eruditorum hominum studiosissimus, maximi habitus est, at etiam a variis Magnatum ac Principum legatis præmiis ac muneribus auctus sortem, quam tamdiu expetierat visus sibi est conciliasse.
Sors quaesturae provinciam Asiam, proconsulem Salvium Titianum dedit: quorum neutro corruptus est; quanquam et provincia dives ac parata peccantibus, et proconsul in omnem aviditatem pronus, quantalibet facilitate redempturus esset mutuam dissimulationem mali. Auctus est ibi filia, in subsidium simul et solatium: nam filium ante sublatum brevi amisit.
This will be reconcilable with all that Pliny says, as well as with his being married when "young"; for he would then be 32 or 33, and his bride 22 or 23; for the daughter of Agricola was born when her father was quaestor in Asia "sors quaesturae provinciam Asiam dedit ... auctus est ibi filia."
Observe the use of esset rather than fuisset to denote what the proconsul would have been ready to do at any time during their continuance in office. Cf. Wr. in loc. Dissimulationem. Auctus est filia. So Cic. ad Att. 1, 2: filiolo me auctum scito. Ante sublatum. Previously born. For this use of sublatum, see Lexicon.
For when some proposed to confer upon him the name of Romulus, as being, in a manner, a second founder of the city, it was resolved that he should rather be called Augustus, a surname not only new, but of more dignity, because places devoted to religion, and those in which anything is consecrated by augury, are denominated august, either from the word auctus, signifying augmentation, or ab avium gestu, gustuve, from the flight and feeding of birds; as appears from this verse of Ennius: When glorious Rome by august augury was built.
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