dominationem, 'tyranny,' 'despotism,' used always (like 'dominus') of the rule of a single person.
honores, 'offices.'
scilicet, 'that is to say.'
in bonis viris, see [note on 'bonorum' 1. 1].
maximam multitudinem, if genuine, must mean 'that their number is very great,' but the words are probably an interpolation; 'in maxima multitudine' (to be connected with 'magnam concordiam') has been conjectured.
si sint adepti, a very remote contingency, 'supposing they were to obtain.'
fugitivo alicui, etc., i.e. in the event of success the real power would be seized by the most worthless of their own party.
Sunt homines, etc. Sulla during his dictatorship (82-80 b.c.) rewarded his victorious soldiers to the number of 120,000, by distributing them in military colonies throughout Italy, assigning an allotment of land to each. Faesulae was one of these colonies.