This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...i.e. the army and navy. 398. dicam: am I to say; subjv.; see 201, and cf. commemorem, l. 405. Note the omission of an interrogative word. 399. Brundisio: a famous seaport, which still has some commercial importance. It was the terminus of the Appian Way and the starting point for Greece and the East. For the use of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...i.e. the army and navy. 398. dicam: am I to say; subjv.; see 201, and cf. commemorem, l. 405. Note the omission of an interrogative word. 399. Brundisio: a famous seaport, which still has some commercial importance. It was the terminus of the Appian Way and the starting point for Greece and the East. For the use of the prep. see 133, 6.6 hieme summa: in midwinter; cf. note on l. 383. transmiserint: intr., see Vocab. 401. legati: it is not known who these envoys were. 402. duodecim secures: by metonymy for " two praetors," who were attended outside the city by six lictors each.. As a symbol of authority each lictor carried an ax in a bundle of rods (fasces). Plutarch mentions the incident in his Life of Pompey, sec. 24. 406. quibus... ducitis: owing to the decline of Italian farming and the increase in the population of Rome, it was necessary to obtain foreign supplies. The ports to which Cicero refers were sources of grain. 408. inspectante praetore: under the eyes of a praetor. His name is unknown. 410. liberos: a rhetorical exaggeration. According to Plutarch, a daughter of Marcus Antonius was captured by the PAGE 89 pirates and ransomed for a large sum. Antonius, who had fought against them in 102 B.c, was the grandfather of the triumvir. 412. Ostiense: Ostia was the port of Rome, sixteen miles away, at the mouth of the Tiber. The pirates had burned the Roman fleet in the harbor and plundered the town. 413. cum: at the time when; hence followed by the indie.; ef. transmiserint (l. 399), where the subjv. is due to the involved idea of cause. 414. ea cui: = ea ut ei, a fleet such that a consul, etc. The subjv. clause is descriptive. 416. unius hominis: Pompey. 91 419. ei: the same persons, emphasizing vos. Oceani ostium: i.e. the Straits of Gibra...
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Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Libris. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth boards are rubbed with edgewear. Prior owner name on fep, notation on end pages. A small section of text has heavy pencil markings, most of text is unmarked.
