fuisse: of. fuit on p. 81, l. 7 (and note). hac continentia, i.e. such as his. jam . . . videbatur, was now getting to seem. nunc: notice the emphatic repetition (anaphora). servire . . . quam imperare: a rhetorical exaggeration for preferring the condition of subject allies to nominal independence.
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