hominis amplissimi,i.e. Curio: the congratulations of so honored a man showed the expected effect of the election on this trial. nova, strange (surprising). dissimulare, to conceal the fact that, etc. sortirentur, were drawing their lots: the particular posts or duties of coordinate magistrates (like the several praetors) were assigned by lot. Metello:a brother of Q. Metellus Creticus, consul elect, and of L. Metellus, praetor in Sicily. obtigisset,had fallen to (the regular word for this kind of assignment). ut . . . quaereret, to have charge of the Court of Extortion: subst. clause of result; § 569, 2 (332, a, 2); B. 297, 2; G. 553, 3; H. 571,1 (501, i, I); H.-B. 521, 3, a. de pecuniis repetundis,of extortion (lit. concerning demanding back the [extorted] property). factam,offered.—pueros,slaves.
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