pacto, used adverbially like 'modo.' Cf. 'quo pacto' = 'how?'

metuerent. See on 'loquatur' [1. 19 below].

urbem. Sc. 'relinquendam esse.'

iniuria, 'undeservedly.'

aliquo, 'to some spot or other,' 'somewhither'; cf. 'in aliquas terras' [1. 20]. Cf. Ter. And. 339 'dum proficiscor aliquo.'

nunc, 'as it is.' So νῦν in Greek.

[§18].

tacita loquitur. Oxymoron, lit. 'speaks without voice,' 'silently appeals to you.'

multorum civium neces, alluding to his share in carrying out the proscriptions of Sulla.

vexatio direptioque sociorum. He had been propraetor of Africa 67 b.c., brought to trial for extortion, but acquitted in spite of strong evidence of guilt. The term socii had been originally confined to those Italians who were not cives; but since the franchise had been given to all Italians (90-89 b.c.) it had been extended to the provincials.