qui. . . potuerit, how could he have known? ut . . . rogasset: § 527, a (313, a); cf. B. 308; G. 608; H. 586, ii (515, iii); H-B. 532, 2, b. quaesierit sane, suppose (if you will) that he did ask: § 440 (266, c); cf. B. 308; G. 264; H. 559, 3 (484, iii); H.-B. 532, I. quid largiar, how much I grant, i.e. how liberal I am in making concessions to the other side. Q. Arrius: one of the witnesses. corruperit: same constr. as quaesierit. eadem hora: in the famous trial of the violation of the mysteries (sect. 13) Clodius had tried to prove an alibi by showing, from Causinius's testimony, that he had spent that night at his house at Interamna (Terni, on the river Nar in Umbria, ninety miles away); but he was confuted by the evidence of Cicero, who testified that he had seen him in Rome the same day. This act of Cicero's Clodius never forgot or forgave. mansurum fuisse: § 589, b, 2 (337, b, 2); B. 322; G. 597, R.4 ; H. 647 (527, iii); H.-B. 581, b, I the protasis is suppressed but may be supplied from the sed clause following.
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