vestris. Some editions add liberis.
condicio. See [on 2. 14], 'if these were the terms on which I received the consulship.'
[§2].
in quo omnis aequitas continetur, 'the home of all justice,' because the praetor's courts were held in the Forum and adjacent buildings.
consularibus auspiciis, 'the auspices taken at the election of the consuls.' They were elected by the Comitia Centuriata, which met in the Campus Martius. For 'auspicia' see [on 1. 33].
summum auxilium, etc. The control of foreign relations belonged particularly to the senate.
ad quietem datus, epithet of 'lectus' ('datus' must not be mistaken for the main verb, which is 'fuit').
sedea honoris. Some MSS. add the explanatory words 'sella curulis.'
multa tacui. He hints at the suppression of the names of certain persons suspected by him to be implicated. Crassus and Caesar may have been among these. See Sall. Cat. 48, 49.
meo quodam dolore, abl. of attendant circumstances, 'at some pain to myself.'