19. óráculum. Read again the description beginning at the bottom of page 11.
21. quis. See the note on 30, 3.
Post paucís annís, 'a few years later,' literally 'later by a few years.' Post is here an adverb, and paucís annís ablative of degree of difference. The expression is equivalent to post paucós annós.
22. accidit. See the note on 30, 1.
factúrus, 'intending to make.' The future participle with a form of sum is used to express an intended or future action. This is called the active periphrastic conjugation.
23. certam. See the note on 5, 13.
24. Dié cónstitútá, ablative of time.
26. á pueritiá. Compare á pueró, 9, 20.
34. 2. tránseundó flúmine. See the note on suí ulcíscendí, 30, 16.
nesció quó. See the note on 33. 14.