[520] de cuya presión... los sirven, the results of whose pressure oftentimes are laws favorable to them, though ostensibly not meant to be such.
[521] que en el acto de celebrarse el Congreso de Tucumán, than on the occasion when the Congress of Tucumán was held.
[522] después de seis años de rotas las hostilidades, six years after the breaking out of hostilities.
[523] llevaba involucrados, carried within itself.
[524] de este último, i.e., el proceso idealista.
[525] Uno de ellos, i.e., one of the caudillos. V. Introduction.
[526] a su alrededor, around it.
[527] que habría de regir, which was to rule.
[528] Córdoba. V. map. Its university, having been founded in 1613, is the third oldest in South America, that of San Marcos in Lima (which was founded in 1551) and that of Bogotá (founded in 1572) having preceded it.
[529] Charcas, capital of Bolivia, to-day called Sucre. It used to be known also under the names of Chuquisaca and La Plata. Its famous university was founded in 1623. It has a school of law, theology, and medicine.