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QUIETE ET PURE ATQUE ELEGANTER: the enumeration consists of two branches connected by et, the second branch being subdivided into two members connected by atque. Had each of the adverbs been intended to stand on exactly the same footing Cic. would have written et instead of atque, or else would have omitted the copula altogether; see n. on 53 capitum iugatio.
Triginta capitum fœtus enixa jacebat, Alba, solo recubans, albi circum ubera nati. Whilst discovery of the misgovernment of others led to his own power, it was wise to inquire, it was safe to publish: there was then no delicacy; there was then no danger.
Cuius quidem non utilitas me solum, ut ante dixi, sed etiam cultura et natura ipsa delectat: adminiculorum ordines, capitum iugatio, religatio et propagatio vitium, sarmentorum ea, quam dixi, aliorum amputatio, aliorum immissio. Quid ego irrigationes, quid fossiones agri repastinationesque proferam quibus fit multo terra fecundior? 54 Quid de utilitate loquar stercorandi?
He had good reason for him who objected to the Archbishop of Spalato, that qui ubique est, nusquam est; for instead of reconciling Protestants and Papists, they make themselves a third party, and raise more controversy. O bellua multorum capitum! Sect. 4.
See the well-known passages, Orat. 81 and De Or. 3, 155. VESTITA PAMPINIS: 'arrayed in the young foliage'. FRUCTU ... ASPECTU: ablatives of respect, like gustatu above. CAPITUM IUGATIO: 'the linking together of their tops'; i.e. the uniting of the tops of the stakes by cross-stakes. So the editors; but Conington on Verg.
"Around thee, powerless to infect thy soul, Rose, in his crested crowd, the Lerna worm." "Non te rationis egentem Lernæus turbâ capitum circumstetit anguis."
Titus Livius speaking of our nation: "Intolerantissima laboris corpora vix arma humeris gerebant." Many nations do yet, and did anciently, go to war without defensive arms, or with such, at least, as were of very little proof: "Tegmina queis capitum, raptus de subere cortex."
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