[107.2] ‘gentleness.’

[107.3] ‘the sixth,’ counting from March, with which, it is said, the Roman year originally began.

[107.4] Compos . . . meōrum: ‘Now that I have gained my heart’s desire,’ which had been to avenge his uncle’s death.

[107.5] ‘Nay.’

[107.6] commissum īrī is fut. infin. pass. of committō, and = ‘was sure to be (lit. was going to be) handed over,’ i.e. if he resigned.

[108.1] ‘met.’

[108.2] ‘retinue.’

[108.3] ‘substitute.’

[108.4] ‘wounds.’

[108.5] ‘blushed.’