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MODICIS: for the sake of variety Cic. chooses this, not moderatis, as the opposite of immoderatis. Trans. 'a moderate amount of goodfellowship'. M.F. = Marci filium. DEVICERAT: pluperfect where a modern would incline to use a perfect.
C. Duellium M. F., qui Poenos classe primus devicerat, redeuntem a cena senem saepe videbam puer; delectabatur cereo funali et tibicine, quae sibi nullo exemplo privatus sumpserat: tantum licentiae dabat gloria. 45 Sed quid ego alios? Ad me ipsum iam revertar.
QUOD CYRUS: see 30. QUEO: the verb queo is rarely found without a negative, possum being used in positive sentences; cf. however Lael. 71 queant, where see n. MILES etc.: see 10 above. FUERIM ... DEPUGNAVI: A. 336, b; G. 630, Rem. 1; H. 524, 2, 2. Depugnavi = 'fought the war out', or 'to the end'; cf. 38, desudans; 44 devicerat. CURIA: = senatus. ROSTRA: cf. n. on 44 devicerat.
PERMANSERAT: i.e. during the siege of Tarentum. INTERFUISSET: not in accordance with English idiom; cf. n. on 4 putassent; also 44 devicerat. The latest date assigned by other authorities for Plato's last visit to the West is 361 B.C. REPERIO: sc. in annalibus; so in 15; cf. videmus in 26.
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