[29.15] litterārum lūdī: schools where children were taught their A B C’s, i.e. what we should call ‘primary schools.’
[29.16] subjunctive as the subordinate clause of the indirect quotation, which depends on minātur. The threat was: Nī (id) fēceris, vī (tē) abstraham.
[29.17] abl. abs.
[30.1] Neque eō sētius: ‘nevertheless.’ How literally? eō = ‘for that reason.’
[30.2] partitive gen. with nihil: H 441 (397, 1): M 564: A 216, a, 3: G 369: B 201, 2.
[30.3] dat. with īgnōsce: H 426, 2 (385, II): M 531: A 227: G 346: B 187, II, a.
[30.4] cultrō . . . trānsfīgit: cf. [p. 2, n. 8].
[30.5] tribūnōs: two armies were in the field against the Sabines and Aequians. The eight Decemvirs who commanded them were deposed, and ten tribunes, or ‘captains,’ were chosen in their place.
[30.6] cōgō.
[30.7] cōnscīscō. With this whole story cf. Macaulay’s Lays, Virginia.