[71.5] ‘from above,’ i.e. from the tops of the wagons.
[71.6] Captives were either killed or sold into slavery.
[71.7] ēlīdō.
[71.8] mūtuīs . . . vulneribus: ‘wounds inflicted by each other.’
[71.9] ab . . . pependērunt: ‘hung from trees’ = ‘hanged themselves to trees.’
[71.10] ut . . . hominī: ‘as (i.e. because he was) a new man,’ i.e. one whose ancestors had never held any state office. Such a man was not necessarily of plebeian birth.
[71.11] ēvectō: ‘when he had been elevated.’ eī . . . ēvectō may also be rendered ‘his elevation.’
[71.12] Sc. esse.
[71.13] The part. gives the cause of dōnāverat.
[71.14] In theory citizenship could be conferred only by action of the comitia tribūta, or assembly in which the people met by tribes.