[98.8] ‘great-grandson.’

[98.9] ‘defeat’; a technical term of Roman politics.

[98.10] ‘butcher.’

[98.11] Āctum erat dē: ‘it would have been all up with.’

[98.12] in . . . incidisset: ‘happened in the days of.’

[98.13] Cicero.

[98.14] ‘prowess.’

[98.15] ‘culprit.’

[98.16] ‘by a general downfall.’

[98.17] conspicuous’; lit., ‘shining.’