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A severe cut, though quite incidental and very concise. Otiosos. Antith. to militare. Men in civil life, cf. note on otio, II. Otium auxit. Augere otium==sequi altissimum otium. Dr. Penitus==inwardly, i.e. sincerely, zealously. So R. But Dr.== prorsus, omnino, valde. Cultu modicus. Simple in dress, cf. note on cultus, G. 6. Comitatus, passive, so used by Cic. also. Uno aut altero. One or two.
"Et mox" says a chronicle of the time, "subsecutus est eum patricius Theodoricus veniens in Pineta, et fixit fossatum, obsidiens Odoacrem clausum per trienum in Ravenna et factus est usque ad sex solidos modicus tritici...." Theodoric established himself in a fortified camp in the Pineta with a view to preventing food or reinforcements arriving to his enemy from the sea.
Ceterum, ut militare nomen, grave inter otiosos, aliis virtutibus temperaret, tranquillitatem atque otium penitus auxit, cultu modicus, sermone facilis, uno aut altero amicorum comitatus; adeo ut plerique quibus magnos viros per ambitionem aestimare mos est, viso aspectoque Agricola, quaererent famam, pauci interpretarentur.
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