induatur, etc.: § 156, a (111, a) ; B. 175, 2, d; G. 218; H. 407 (377); H.-B. 288, 3; tie himself up and strangle himself (as in a noose) ; Cf. our "give the man rope enough and hell hang himself." qui esset, what he was (i.e. whether a citizen or not). si . . . ducerere, quid . . . clamitares, etc.: in this past condition, cont. to fact, the imperf. is used instead of the pluperf., because the supposition is general rather than particular ; § 517, a (308, a) ; G. 597, R.1 ; H. 579, I (510, N.2) ; H.-B. 581; if you, caught, etc. had ever been in the hands of men who were dragging you off to punishment, what other cry would you have raised than, "I am a Roman citizen"? profuisset, would have availed, i.e. in the case supposed (as defined in the preceding sentence): thus profuisset involves its own protasis; § 522 (311); B. 305, 1; G. 600, 1; H. 575, 9 (507, N.7); H.-B. 582, 4. It is a complete proposition, which is made conditional by si; § 523 (311, d) ; H.-B. 582,4: it is also made the protasis of a new apod., potuit, 1.15; § 522, a (311, c); B. 304, 3; G. 597, R.3, a; H. 583 (511, I, N.3) ; H.-B. 582, 3, a. qui, concessive ; cum, causal. usurpatione, claim (lit. using the word).
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