[78.2] ‘surpassed,’ ‘outstripped.’
[78.3] causal abl., explained by quod . . . exspectābātur.
[78.4] ‘ability.’
[78.5] forēnsī operā: ‘legal business,’ i.e. the practice of law. In or near the Forum were the law courts, as well as business places in general.
[78.6] in Asiae pāce: ‘in Asia, which was then at peace.’
[78.7] quīdam is often used, as here, to soften a phrase which the writer fears may seem exaggerated.
[78.8] ūsūs dīsciplīnam: ‘the training of experience.’
[78.9] iter et nāvigātiōnem: ‘voyage.’
[78.10] ‘experts.’ Sc. reī mīlitāris.
[78.11] rēbus gestīs: ‘history’; here, of course, military history especially.