Ch. 14.
2. quam habēbant optimam ＝ optimam quam habēbant.
Ch. 15.
5. Q. Mārcius: called Coriolānus from the city Corioli, which he had conquered. Ihne, p. 155; Creighton, p. 21.
8. oppūgnātūrus: the Participle ＝ oppūgnāvisset.
9. patriam suam: ‘his native city.’
12. secundus: really the first after Tarquinius, but the second in order. In an enumeration of a series the Latin generally includes the starting point.
Ch. 16.
14. C. Fabiō et L. Virgīniō cōnsulibus: lit. ‘C. Fabius and L. Virginius being consuls’ ＝ ‘in the consulship of,’ etc. One of the regular ways of dating events in Latin is to give the names of the consuls for that year. Another is to reckon the time from the founding of the city; cf. ab urbe conditā, Ch. 18.
15. quī … erant: ‘who belonged to the Fabian household’; cf. centum ex seniōribus, Ch. 2.