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Putarent = 'thought, as they said'. ID QUOD ESSET ACCUSANDUM: the subjunctive esset is used because a class of things is referred to, 'nothing of a nature to deserve complaint'; id quod erat, etc. would have meant merely 'that one thing which was matter for complaint'. A. 320; G. 634, Rem. 1; H. 503, I. USU VENIRENT: the phrase usu venire differs very little in meaning from accidere. Verg.
Salinator was consul in 188, and died in 170. For the name Salinator cf. n. on 11. SP. ALBINUS: Sp. Albinus died in 180. He was probably a little younger than Salinator. He can scarcely have been fifty years of age at his death. TUM ... TUM: 'now ... again'; so in 45. CARERENT: see n. on 3 ferat. VITAM NULLAM PUTARENT: 'they considered life to be not life at all'. For vitam nullam cf.
Albinus, homines consulates, nostri fere aequales, deplorare solebant, tum quod voluptatibus carerent, sine quibus vitam nullam putarent, tum quod spernerentur ab eis, a quibus essent coli soliti; qui mihi non id videbantur accusare, quod esset accusandum.
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