bīnōrum: ‘two apiece.’
6. quālem: predicate to Rōmam; ‘what sort (of a city) he had found Rome (to be).’
7. comperisset, cf. agerentur, Ch. 11.
Ch. 14.
18. occīsūrum: cf. note on prōmittentēs … implendum, Bk. I, Ch. 16.
sī … aliquid: ‘if something.’
pollicērētur: Imperf. Subjunctive representing the Future Indicative in Direct Discourse; H. 574, 646 (507, I, 527, I); M. 363, 1, 402; A. & G. 307, 1, 337, a, 3; G. 595, R. 1; B. 319, B.
19. dominum: indicating that the physician was a slave, as was usual at that time.
23. Lūcānīs et Samnītibus: they, with the Bruttii, had joined Pyrrhus against Rome. This was the second triumph of Fabricius; cf. note on Fabricius, Ch. 12. He was consul the third time two years after.