[53.4] Cf. [p. 31, n. 9].
[53.5] Haud . . . sī: ‘Quite as much frightened as if.’
[53.6] Cf. [p. 47, n. 12].
[53.7] P. Cornelius Scipio and Cn. Cornelius Scipio, respectively father and uncle of Africanus.
[53.8] Sc. senātuī or populō.
[53.9] Cf. [p. 3, n. 2].
[53.10] Subjunctive by attraction: see [p. 13, n. 10].
[53.11] inops cōnsiliī: ‘at its wit’s end.’
[53.12] The gen. is regularly used with adjectives denoting fullness or the opposite: H 451, 2 (399, I, 3): M 573: A 218, a: G 374: B 204, 1.
[53.13] = ‘to be a candidate.’