[46.3] eī . . . auxiliō: ‘to help him in his peril.’ Cf. [p. 25, n. 6].
[46.4] receptuī cecinit: ‘gave the signal for a retreat.’ receptuī is a dat. of purpose: cf. [p. 25, n. 6]. canere is used of instrumental music (here of playing on the trumpet) as well as of vocal.
[46.5] cōnfiteor.
[46.6] i.e. Hannibal.
[46.7] tandem . . . dedisse: ‘the cloud . . . had at last brought wind and rain,’ i.e. Fabius, after so long threatening the Carthaginians, had at last proceeded to active measures.
[46.8] Cf. [p. 4, n. 6].
[46.9] per . . . vēnandī: ‘under pretense of hunting.’
[46.10] a substantive clause of purpose, object of monuit.
[46.11] supine of pāscō, denoting the purpose of prōpulsa essent: cf. [p. 5, n. 20].
[46.12] veluti . . . factam: ‘as if they (i.e. the cattle) were plunder captured from the foe.’ praedam is accus. by attraction to ea pecora, to be supplied as the object of dōnārent.