[614] Vocat pugnas does not simply mean ‘proclaims war,’ though that is really what the image comes to, but expresses the notion that there was some presence within the gates which the consul had to evoke. See on v. 603., 8. 3. ‘Sequitur,’ takes up the cry: comp. 9. 54, 636. Serv. however says that the phrases ‘vocat’ and ‘sequitur’ refer to the special kind of service called “evocatio” (“nam ad subitum bellum evocabantur”) when the consul used the words “Qui rempublicam salvam esse volt me sequatur.”
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