7 Pons sublicius = the pile-bridge, built by Ancus Marcius to connect Rome proper with the Janiculum-hill, or ridge.
8 Cocles = the one-eyed, from loss of an eye in battle.
10 citatos = at full speed. Adj. use of participle; cf. citato equo.
11 trepidamque turbam = panic-stricken and in disorder.
12 reprehensans = seizing them by the arm one after another.
14-15 si transitum . . . reliquissent = if they left the bridge free for the enemy to cross by. transitum = noun, in appos. to pontem.
21-22 obversis armis = as he faced about.