[56.9] dē . . . remissō: ‘for the release of his nephew.’ For the construction, see [p. 5, n. 15].
[56.10] quaerō.
[56.11] oblātam (offerō): ‘now that it was at last offered.’
[56.12] ‘the legal time’; lēgitima aetās, [l. 11]. In later days forty-three was the legal age.
[57.1] See [p. 5, n. 3].
[57.2] Sc. diē, for the gender of which, as in diēs, quae dicta erat, [l. 127], see Vocab., [diēs].
[57.3] For mood and tense, see [p. 6, n. 1]. What did Scipio say?
[57.4] ‘pitched,’ lit. ‘measured.’ The Roman camp was always laid out with great care, according to a fixed plan, and was carefully fortified, even if the stay was to last but one night.
[57.5] The participles = rel. clauses: see [p. xxiv], L 1.
[57.6] interrogātōs (sc. eōs) . . . dīmīsit = interrogāvit (eōs) . . . et . . . dīmīsit, or cum (eōs) . . . interrogāsset, . . . dīmīsit.