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hoc=hoc re, propterea

quod verear, subjunctive as being the unreal reason.

ausus est, was so daring.

speravit sese . . . valiturum, hoped he would have influence. Another reading is speravit se . . . posse (mark the difference of tense), hoped he possessed influence.

expectata nobilitas, our long looked-for nobles i.e. while Sulla was away and his party were not in power.

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