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After questioning several petitioners the general raised his eyes and looked at Tchervyakov. "Yesterday at the Arcadia, if you recollect, your Excellency," the latter began, "I sneezed and . . . accidentally spattered . . . Exc. . . ." "What nonsense. . . . It's beyond anything! What can I do for you," said the general addressing the next petitioner.
In any way contrary to nature and by design. Guen. Quod fiebat etiam abortus procuratione. Ex agnatis. Agnati hoc loco dicuntur, qui post familiam constitutam, ubi haeres jam est, deinde nascuntur. Hess. To put such to death was a barbarous custom among the Romans. Cf. Ann. 3, 25; see Beck. Gall. Exc. 2. scene 1. Alibi, e.g. at Rome. Boni mores vs. bonae leges.
With the use of cetera here, compare His. 4, 56: ceterum vulgus==the rest, viz. the common soldiers, and see the principle well illustrated in Doederlein's Essay, His. p. 17. Opere. Hard labor, which would serve as a punishment. Beck. Gall. Exc. 2. Sc. 2; Smith's Dic. Ant. as above. Non disciplina ira. Hendiadys==non disciplinae severitate, sed irae impetu. Cf. His. 1, 51: severitate disciplinae.
Gall. Exc. Sc. 12. Ambitio. Primarily the solicitation of office by the candidate; then the parade and display that attended it; then parade in general, especially in a bad sense. Certis, i.e. rite statutis. Guen. Cumulant. Structura est poetica, cf. Virg. Aen. 11, 50: cumulatque altaria donis. Equus adjicitur.
One and another of the colonels and majors were tried, and, to fill out the list, little Nolan, against whom, Heaven knows, there was evidence enough, that he was sick of the service, had been willing to be false to it, and would have obeyed any order to march any-whither with any one who would follow him had the order been signed, "By command of His Exc. A. Burr." The courts dragged on.
For examples see R. Exc. 4. For the principle cf. Curarum divisi. This clause means not merely, that his time was divided between business and relaxation; but that there was a broad line of demarcation between them, as he proceeds to explain. Divisa==diversa inter se. Dr. So Virg. Georg. 2, 116: divisae arboribus patriae==countries are distinguished from each other by their trees. Jam vero.
Exerceat, Observe the subj. to express the views of others, not of the author. Secura agens. Requiring less anxious thought and mental acumen, and proceeding more by physical force. Secura==minus anxia. Dr. Cf. note, His. 1, 1. Obtusior==minus acuta. Togatos. Gall., Exc. Remissionumque. The Greeks and Romans both used the pl. of many abstracts, of which we use only the sing.
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