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Quapropter monuit ut essent viri cordati, et amore boni patrisfamilias excolentis agrum suum, et extirpantis ac resecantis noxia gramina quæ fruges solent opprimere, et ipsi in præsenti facere festinarent. Primò majores regni dominos occidendo. Deinde juridicos, justiciarios, et juratores patriæ perimendo.
CONTINGIT: see n. on 8. EXSTINGUITUR: there is the same contrast between opprimere and exstinguere in Lael. 78. QUASI ... EVELLUNTUR: it is rare to find in Cic. or the other prose writers of the best period a verb in the indicative mood immediately dependent on quasi, in the sense of sicut or quem ad modum.
One would gladly stop, but too late, the request half heard, Voluit Deus ora loquentis Opprimere; exierat jam vox properata sub auras.
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