[76.6] cōnfodiō.
[76.7] prōsternō.
[76.8] These words all = ‘Lucky.’
[76.9] ‘just now,’ ‘but a moment before.’
[76.10] ‘remained intact.’
[76.11] quī audēret is a rel. clause of result = tālis ut audēret. It characterizes or describes the antecedent adulēscēns. See [p. 73, n. 5].
[76.12] in līmine iam: ‘when he was already at (on) his own threshold,’ i.e. even the brief comment that he deigned to make was not uttered till the last moment.
[77.3] vēnandō . . . coepit: cf. I, 21, vēnandō . . . coepērunt, and note.
[77.4] Cf. [p. 64, n. 2].
[77.5] amāns is treated here as an adj., and so construed with the gen. Cf. cupidus voluptātum, [l. 59].