[3.10] haud . . . āgnōsceret: ‘he came very near to recognizing him’; how literally? In this construction quīn = ut nōn, and the subjunctive is one of result: H 595 (504): M 913: A 319, d: G 555: B 284, 3.
[3.11] abl. of specification: H 480 (424): M 650: A 253: G 397: B 226, 1.
[3.12] similis is construed with both gen. and dat.
[3.13] ‘very like’; cf. a similar use of the comparative in [l. 16].
[3.14] dum, ‘while,’ regularly takes the pres. indic. where English uses the imperfect: H 533, 4 (467, 4): M 917: A 276, e: G 570, R.: B 293.
[3.15] historical presents: H 532, 3 (467, III): M 734: A 276, d: G 229: B 259, 3.
[3.16] expōnō.
[3.17] condō.
[3.18] ortā (orior) . . . contentiōne = ‘because a strife arose’; see [p. xxiii], K 4.
[3.19] indir. quest. depending on contentiōne; cf. [n. 2]. The strife centered in the question, “Which of us shall rule?”