tribuniciam potestatem: referring chiefly to the power of the tribunes to try criminal cases before the comitia tributa; this power, greatly abridged by Sulla, had been restored by a law of Pompey early in this year, B.C. 70. verbo, in name. re vera, in fact. illam,the tribunician power (because this was a check on the power of the Senators). Catulum: Q. Lutatius Catulus was the best and most eminent man of the aristocracy. fugit, has escaped. referente,consulting [the Senate]: the technical expression for bringing a matter before the Senate for action. rogatus: each Senator in turn was asked his opinion (sententiam)by the consul or other presiding officer; cf. hos sententiam rogo,Cat. 1, sect. 9. patres conscriptos: see note on Cat. 1, sect. 9, p. 103, l. 6. fuisse desideraturos (the regular way of expressing the contrary to fact apodosis in indir. disc.), would have missed: ยง 589, b, 2 (337, b, 2); 321, A, 2; G. 656, N.2; H. 647 (527, iii); H.-B. 581, b, 1.
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