ut = 'ex quo tempore,' 'ever since.' Cf. Cic. ad Att. 1. 13. 2 'ut Brundisio profectus es, nullae mihi abs te sunt redditae litterae,' and Hor. Od. 4. 4.42.
paucis ante diebus. Really, it was nearly a month ago (Nov. 8-Dec. 3).
cum . . . eiciebam, indic. because 'cum' = 'quo tempore,' 'at the time when.' Cf. [2. 1] and [1. 7, note].
exterminari, 'banished' (ex, terminus). The sense 'exterminated' is not found in classical Latin.
[§4].
fidem faceret, 'would command confidence.'
tumultus, used exclusively of disturbances in Italy and Gaul. Cf. Cic. Phil. 8. ch. 1 'itaque maiores nostri tumultum Italicum, quod erat domesticus, tumultum Gallicum, quod erat Italiae finitimus, praeterea nullum nominabant,' and the whole passage. On the Allobroges, see [Introduction, p. 13].
ad Catilinam, 'addressed to Catilina.'
[§5].
qui omnia, etc., 'like men whose political sentiments were entirely sound and excellent.' sentirent is subj. because qui is causal.