dissimulent, sc. 'se videre.'
sententiis, 'votes' (in the senate). See [on 1. 9].
regie, 'tyrannically,' i.e. like a despot, not like the magistrate of a free state. Gk. τυραννικῶς. Cf. [2. 14] 'crudelissimum tyrannum.'
naufragos, 'castaways.' Cf. [2. 24] 'illam naufragorum manum.'
nescio quo pacto, 'somehow.' 'Nescio quis' is treated as a single word, hence erupit not eruperit.
latrocinio, abstract for concrete; 'band of brigands.'
aestu febrique, hendiadys, 'in the burning heat of fever.'
biberunt, v.l. 'biberint.'
relevatus represents the protasis, 'si relevatus erit.'