[61.4] partitive gen. with parum, which is here a noun. In [l. 225] it was an adverb.
[61.5] nihil . . . commūtātum: ‘no change was made.’ Note that nihil is an adverbial acc. of degree, and that commūtātum est is impersonal.
[61.6] ‘treated.’
[61.7] tum māximē: ‘at that very moment.’
[61.8] Explain mood and tense.
[61.9] Distinguish between grātiās agere and grātiam referre.
[61.10] Notice that suādeō = merely ‘to advise’; ‘to persuade’ is persuādeō.
[61.11] ‘was not arranged.’
[62.1] = quī prōlātus erat; cf. [p. xxiv], L 1.
[62.2] abl. of means (though rendered ‘in which’) both with continēbantur and refellī poterat.