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XXIII. Tarracinensem, of Tarracina, the ancient Anxur, a town in Latium in the Volscian territory.

servus quisquam : quisquam is used, as here, adjectivally only with substantives denoting persons (as § 74 cum homine quoquam; § 94 quisquam quemquam sicarium) or classes of persons (as Verr. 2.2.7, cuiquam ordini) ; not with those denoting inanimate objects.

id aetatis = ea aetate, as id temporis = eo tempore, placed first for emphasis ; the sons were not children, but youths.

suspiciosum autem, merely suspicious, did I say? that neither of them noticed it ? (implying that such a statement was not merely suspicious, but a clear sign of guilt). On autem correcting an inadequate phrase, cf. Or. in Pis. fragm. Quod minimum specimen in te ingenii? ingenii autem? immo ingenii hominis ac liberi?

se committere, to venture into.

defendere absolute, give protection.


non modo = not only not, the second non being omitted when the common verb possunt is in the second clause ; when it is in the first, as § 137, id non modo re prohibere non licet, sed ne verbis quidem vituperare, or when there are two verbs, as § 54, quod planum facere non modo non possis, verum ne coneris quidem, the second non is added.


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