4 Torquatus, Dictator 353 and 349 B.C., and three times Consul.
6 negotium exhiberi patri = lit. that trouble was being brought upon his father, i.e. that his father was in trouble.
9-10 qui arbitraretur = inasmuch as he thought. Adject. causal clause.—Holden.
11 remotis arbitris = when he had put out of the room all witnesses.—H. arbiter* = (ar = ad + bito = eo) = spectator, umpire.
14-15 missum facturum = would set at liberty.
19 ad Anienem Galli. On this, their second invasion, the Gauls advanced as far as the Anio. Livy tells us that after the death of their champion the Gauls fled under cover of night.
21-22 cuius . . . fugati, i.e. the great battle of Vesuvius fought 340 B.C. by the Veseris, a R. in Campania near Mount Vesuvius, which established for ever the supremacy of Rome over Latium.
Parallel Passage. Livy, vii. 4, 5, 9, 10.
* Cf. arbiter pugnae, bibendi, Horace.