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Magno ea fletu et mox precationibus faustis audita; (magno ea fletu et mox precationibus faustis audita: ‘these words were heard amid much weeping and soon followed by auspicious vows.’) ac si modum orationi posuisset, misericordia sui gloriaque animoi audientium impleverat: (si modum orationi posuisset, misericordia sui gloriaque animoi audientium impleverat: ‘had he set an end to his words, he would have filled the hearts of the audience with compassion and respect.’ The conditional sentence is contrary to fact (type III condition), normally with subjunctive (imperfect or pluperfect) in both protasis and apodosis. Here, the plup. indicative in the latter shows that the expected result is interrupted. See G. 597, Remark 2, and A.G. 517, b.) vana et totiens inrisa revolutus, de reddenda re publica utque consules seu quis alius regimen susciperent, vero quoque et honesto fidem dempsit. (ad vana et totiens inrisa revolutus, de reddenda re publica utque consules seu quis alius regimen susciperent, vero quoque et honesto fidem dempsit: the passive revolutus has middle sense: ‘having fallen back on his vain and so often ridiculed talk about reinstating the republic in order for the consuls or someone else to assume the government, he removed all credibility even from [what was] true and honest.’ de reddenda re publica: use of the passive gerundive to express duty, obligation, ‘for the republic to be restored’; vero …et honesto: most probably abl. of separation, but dat. cannot be excluded after dempsit.) memoriae Drusi eadem quae in Germanicum decernuntur, plerisque additis, ut ferme amat posterior adulatio. (ut ferme amat posterior adulation: ‘as adulation often loves doing when given a second chance’) funus imaginum pompa maxime inlustre fuit, (imaginum pompa …inlustre: ‘on account of the impressive display of statues’) cum origo luliae gentis Aeneas omnesque Albanorum reges et conditor urbis Romulus, post Sabina nobilitas, Attus Clausus ceteraeque Claudiorum effigies longo ordine spectarentur. (cum origo luliae gentis Aeneas omnesque Albanorum reges et conditor urbis Romulus, post Sabina nobilitas, Attus Clausus ceteraeque Claudiorum effigies longo ordine spectarentur: causal cum here explains the previous inlustre: ‘because [the effigy of] Aeneas (the origin of the Julian gens), all of the Alban kings, the founder of Rome Romulus, then the Sabine nobility, Attus Clausus and the other statues of the Claudii could be admired in a long procession’; Aeneas: the mythical hero who fled from the sack of Troy and after many vicissitudes landed in Latium, in central Italy. According to legend, his son Iulus (considered the ancestor of the Julia gens) founded Alba Longa, in the Alban hills SE of Rome. Alban kings descended from him ruled over Alba Longa for four centuries before the foundation of Rome in 753 B.C. by Romulus. Sabina nobilitas: the Sabine region once extended east, southeast, and north of Rome and the Sabines even occupied two of the seven hills of Rome, the Quirinal and the Viminal. Attus Clausus or Appius Claudius, a member of their nobility, moved to Rome in 505 B.C. from Regillus (near modern Frascati) giving origin to the family of the Claudii. The story of his life can be found in Livy.)