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In universum aestimanti, plus penes peditem roboris: eoque mixti proeliantur, apta et congruente ad equestrem pugnam velocitate peditum, quos ex omni juventute delectos ante aciem locant. Definitur et numerus: centeni ex singulis pagis sunt: idque ipsum inter suos vocantur; et quod primo numerus fuit, jam nomen et honor est. Acies per cuneos componitur.
Gerlach, as cited by Or. in loc. Aestimanti. Greek idiom. Elliptical dative, nearly equivalent to the abl. abs. In A. II. the ellipsis is supplied by credibile est. Cf. Boetticher's Lex. Tac. sub Dativus. Eoque mixti. Eo, causal particle==for that reason. Caesar adopted this arrangement in the battle of Pharsalia. Hellen. 7, 5. Centeni.
Whose business or custom it is to administer justice, etc. E. proposes reddant. But it is without authority and would give a less appropriate sense. Centeni. Cf. note, Sec. 6: centeni ex singulis pagis. "Sunt in quibusdam locis Germaniae, velut Palatinatu, Franconia, etc. Bernegger. Consilia et auctoritas. Abstract for concrete==his advisers and the supporters of his dignity.
The centeni, we may remember, were the principal inhabitants of a district composed of different villages, oriinally in number a hundred, but afterward only called by that name, and who probably gave the same denomination to the district out of which they were chosen. Caesar speaks positively of the judicial power exercised in their hundred courts and courts-baron.
A hundred is a favorite number with the Germans and their descendants. The centeni here are a military division. Idque ipsum. Predicate nominative after a verb of calling, H. 362, 2. 2; Z. 394.
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