[12.21] verbīs increpāns: cf. hīs increpāns verbīs, I, 46.
[12.22] abeō.
[12.23] oblīta (oblivīscor) frātrum: ‘you who have forgotten,’ or ‘since you have forgotten.’ For the genitives frātrum and patriae, see H 454 (406, II): M 588: A 219: G 376: B 206, 1. Cf. the English ‘forgetful of.’ For the repetition of oblīta see [n. 11].
[13.1] ‘fare, perish.’ The subject is fēmina, or illa fēmina, as suggested by quaecumque. How? With the whole sentence cf. Sīc . . . mea, I, 47, and see note there.
[13.2] facinus, by its derivation from faciō, properly = ‘a deed,’ whether good or bad, but generally ‘a crime.’
[13.3] = senātōribus, who were officially styled Patrēs Cōnscrīptī. patribus plēbīque virtually = omnibus.
[13.4] ‘court.’
[13.6] The tense has dramatic force and = ‘was (actually) putting on.’
[13.7] caedō.