13. ingentī pompā: cf. ultimā perniciē, Ch. 21.
Ch. 25.
17. obtinēret: ‘obtain’; a late meaning.
18. nihil … ēgit: ‘did not act at all’; i.e. he made no use of the privileges enjoyed by Roman citizens, but acted as a foreigner on the ground that he had lost his citizenship when he had been captured by the enemy. It was so provided by Roman law, but there was also the provision that when a prisoner returned he recovered his former status. The story of the return of Regulus is more than doubtful.
20. uxōrem: according to the view he took she had ceased to be his wife.
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1. obtinuit: ‘he gained his point.’
2. nūllus admīsit: ‘no one admitted (to the senate)’; i.e. the Romans refused to admit the ambassadors.
3. negāvit ＝ dīxit nōn.
4. mānsūrum: sc. esse.