propter raptārum iniūriam: lit. ‘on account of the wrong of the stolen (maidens)’ ＝ ‘on account of the wrong done by stealing the maidens.’ With raptārum sc. virginum.
4. nōn compāruisset: lit. ‘he had not appeared’ ＝ ‘he had disappeared.’
5. ad deōs trānsīsse: lit. ‘to have gone across to the gods’ ＝ ‘to have been translated.’
6. per quīnōs diēs: ‘through five days each.’
Ch. 3.
8. rēx: predicate Nominative.
bellum: emphatic by position as well as by the use of quidem. “The statement that during the forty-three years of Numa’s reign Rome enjoyed uninterrupted peace cannot be looked upon as anything but a fiction or a dream.”
11. cōnsuētūdine proeliōrum: ‘because of their habit of (waging) war.’
iam … putābantur: ‘were beginning to be thought’; note the force of the Imperfect.
12. in decem: Livy I, XIX, says in duodecim mēnsēs.