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50.9.

tum vero: see vocab. and observe the emphatic position. — dubitandum non [esse], he must no longer hesitate; the infin. of the second periphrastic conjugation, here used in indir. disc. after existimavit§ 158 (113. d. N.); B. 115; G. 251; H. 531 (466. N); H-B. 162.); dubitandum is impers. (§ 208. d (146. d); B. 337. 7. b; G. 208. 2; H. 192. 1 (195. ii. 1); H-B. 600. 3. a). — quin can follow only a negative expression, as here non existimavit, etc. — quinproficisceretur, to set out (lit. but that he should, etc.): relative clause of result, depending on dubitandum [esse] (§ 558. a (319. d); B. 284. 3; G. 555; H. 596. 1 (505. i. 1); cf. H-B. 502. 3. b). In the sense of hesitate, dubito regularly takes the infin. and not quin, but exceptions occur, as here.


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