[21.12] The Tiber ran close to the foot of the Aventine hill on which ([l. 26]) the temple of Diana stood.
[21.13] = cum habēret, ‘since he had.’ cum . . . vidēret is also causal.
[21.14] abl. of quality: H 473, 2 (419, II): M 643: A 251: G 400: B 224.
[21.15] ferōcem . . . ferōcī: note that the order in the second of these two pairs of words is the reverse of that in the first. Cf. [l. 36], alteram ferōcem, mītem alteram. This arrangement is called Chiasmus: H 666, 2 (562): M 1150: A 344, f, and N.: G 682, and R.: B 350, II, c).
[22.1] The daughter of Tullius.
[22.2] advocātō . . . coepit = senātum advocāvit et . . . coepit. Cf. [p. 2, n. 8].
[22.3] quā rē . . . contendit: ‘while Servius, after he had heard of this action, was hastening,’ etc. For the tense of contendit, see [p. 3, n. 14].
[22.4] Sc. Cūriae.
[22.5] dēcessisset . . . redīret: ‘had departed . . . and was returning.’
[22.6] super ipsum corpus: ‘over the very body’; ipsum emphasizes the wickedness of Tullia. Roman feeling usually required that the utmost respect be shown to the bodies of the dead.