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NEMO etc.: this line of argument is often repeated in Cic.; see Tusc. 1, 32 et seq.; Arch. 29. DUOS AVOS ... PATRUUM: see nn. on 29. MULTOS: sc. alios. ESSE CONATOS: loosely put for fuisse conaturos, as below, suscepturum fuisse. So in the direct narration we might have, though exceptionally, non conabantur nisi cernerent for non conati essent nisi vidissent. CERNERENT: see n. on 13 quaereretur.

VIGINTI ET DUOS: the commoner order of the words is duos et viginti; see n. on 13 centum ... annos. EI SACERDOTIO: 'that sacred college'; i.e. the pontifical college consisting of the pontifex maximus and the inferior pontifices. REQUIRERET: see n. on 13 quaereretur. NIHIL: n. on 1, l. 1 quid. MIHI: dat. for acc. to emphasize the person.

Qui, cum ex eo quaereretur cur tam diu vellet esse in vita, 'nihil habeo, inquit, 'quod accusem senectutem'. Praeclarum responsum et docto homine dignum! 14 Sua enim vitia insipientes et suam culpam in senectutem conferunt, quod non faciebat is, cuius modo mentionem feci, Ennius: sic ut fortis ecus, spatio qui saepe supremo vicit Olumpia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.

So Wr.; Or. and Doed. understand by it going beyond the mere performance of his duty. It was his duty to protect his province: he enlarged it. Quaereretur. Subj. in a relative clause denoting a purpose. Veranius. Ann. 14, 29. Paullinus. Ann. 14, 29-30. Monam insulam. Now Anglesey. But the Mona of Caesar is the Isle of Man, called by Pliny Monapia.

'to come to a standstill'; cesso is 'I am in a state of rest', 'I am idle'. QUAERERETUR: the past tense, though the principal verb inquit, is in the present, because the present is the historical present and so equivalent to a past tense. Cf. Roby, 1511-1514; Kennedy 229, 2.