[95.2] Quō rārior . . . hōc laudanda magis: ‘The rarer . . . the more praiseworthy.’ Quō and hōc are ablative of the degree of difference (a variety of the ablative of means): cf. [p. 39, n. 12].
[95.3] i.e. over his fellow-citizens.
[95.4] quī . . . partibus: ‘who had apparently belonged,’ etc. How literally? With dīversīs sc. Pompēiō.
[95.5] nē . . . darent: ‘that they might not by any chance give occasion to vigorous measures,’ etc.
[95.6] cūius . . . īgnōrābat: ‘by whose verses, as he very well knew, his own fair fame had been wounded.’
[95.7] ablatives of characteristic.
[95.8] paulō plēniōre: ‘somewhat full.’
[95.9] Sc. corōnae, and cf. the frequent omission of manus with dextra and sinistra.
[96.1] Vīnī parcissimum: cf. Cibī vīnīque temperāns, somnī parcus, XXVI, 21, and note.
[96.2] ut . . . praevenīret expresses result, not purpose.