22002. The sense seems to require a negative here and in 22004.
22004. de halt en bass, ‘(bringing him) down from his height.’
22009. It is difficult to say what occasion precisely is referred to here.
22026. mella: ‘Fortune’ is the subject of the verb.
22033. With this review of the succession of empires compare Conf. Am. Prol. 670 ff.
22081 ff. Cp. Vox Clam. ii. 93 ff.
22101. Vox Clam. ii. 61, ‘Mobilis est tua rota nimis,’ a nearly exact translation.
22125. mal partie, ‘badly ordered.’
22158 ff. With these references to the former greatness and present decay of Rome cp. Conf. Am. Prol. 834-848.
22159. emperere: apparently used here as a feminine form, but not so in 17120.