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Aeque discordiam praepositorum, aeque concordiam, subjectis exitiosam: alterius manus centuriones, alterius servos vim et contumelias miscere.
Ex facili==facile. A frequent form of expression in T., ad Graecorum consuetudinem. Dr. See R. Exc. 24. Singulos binos. Distributives==one for each tribe two for each tribe. Aeque aeque. Like Greek correlatives; alike fatal to their subjects in either case. Mem. 1, 6, 13; Plat. Symp. 181. Alterius manus centuriones, alterius servos. Wr.
Licet decurione more romano non sint addicti præcise quindecim milites quos regat, centurionique centum viginti octo, centuriones tamen ultro citroque centenarium numerum, et ultro citroque denum, decurionem est consilium appellare; nec enim hos servant ordines hispani ex amussim, cogimurque nomine rebus et magistratibus dare.
Only let no reader turn to it who has any invincible repugnance to that curious turn for wildbret, which Goethe has described as the secret of some arts. Dixeris hæc inter varicosos centuriones, Continuo crassum ridet Pulfenius ingens Et centum Græcos curto centusse licebit. As I have already said, it must be judged as something more than a literary diversion.
T. PONTI CENTURIONIS: the centurions were generally men of powerful frame; cf. Veget. 2, 14 centurio elegendus est, qui sit magnis viribus et procera statura; Philipp. 8, 26 centuriones pugnaces et lacertosos; Horat. Sat. 1, 6, 72. MODERATIO: 'a right application'; literally 'a governing'. TANTUM ... NITATUR: cf. 27 quidquid agas agere pro viribus, also 434 quantum possumus.
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