[13.8] amplector.
[13.9] clause of negative purpose: see [p. 9, n. 6].
[13.10] cōnspiciō. The subjunctive may be explained (1) as caused by attraction to faceret, H 652, 1 (529, II): M 793: A 342: G 663: B 324, or (2) as in informal indir. disc.
[13.11] abl. of separation (cf. [p. 1, n. 6]), to be joined with orbum faceret, which = orbāret.
[13.12] After a negative clause the Romans often use que or et, where the English idiom requires but.
[13.13] why abl.? see [p. 4, n. 1].
[13.14] Cf. [p. 6, n. 21].
[13.15] ‘a (certain) street.’ The street referred to ran up the slope of the Esquiline Hill.
[13.16] See Vocab., [iugum]. The father of Horatius, by making him pass, as it were, beneath the yoke, symbolically executed the sentence of death passed by the judges.
[13.17] Sc. Tigillum. Livy says that this beam was renewed from time to time at public expense, even down to his own day. Another memorial of this fight was the Pīla (‘Column’) Horātia, adjoining the Forum, on which Horatius is said to have hung the spoils taken from the Curiatii.