8.  Nostrae  memoriae.  "  Of  our  time." — Videatur.  The  use  of
the  subjunctive  here  is  worth  noting.  The  meaning  is,  "  who  seems
as  far  as  we  can  perceive,"  i.  e.  as  far  as  it  is  allowed  mere  mortals
to  scan  the  councils  of  omnipotence.  The  indicative  would  have
been  too  strong.
9.  Auctoritas.  "  High  reputation."  Auctoritas  is  here  equiva-
lent .to  "  opinio  insigvis  de  alicujus  virtute,"  &c.  {Evnesti  Clav.
Cic.  s.  V.  ^8.)

10.  Vehementer  pe  iinere  ad  beUa  administranda.  "  Intimatety
pertains  to  the  management  of  foreign  wars,"  i.  e.  exercises  a  pow-
erful influence  upon  the  success  of  your  arms  abroad. — Vestris
The  palimpsest  fragment  h^s  nostria.
11.  Etfam^L.  We  have  here  adopted  the  reading  of  the  palimp-
sest fragment,  as  far  preferable  to  the  ordinary  one,  opinions  non
minus  famae. — Quam  aliq'UL  certa  ratione.  '*  Than  by  some  fixed
tpd  reasonable  motive."


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gg      12.  Clarius.    ^*  More  illastrious  than  his,"  i.  e.  Poii(iey*0.
13.  Facit  ad  mictoritatem,  "  Contaibutes  to  high  reputatimi.*'
We  have  inserted  ad  before  auctoriiatemy  on  tlie  conjectnze  of
Weiske,  who  considers  the  conunon  reading,  facii  auctoritatem,  as
doubtful  in  point  of  Latinity.
14.  Tanta  et  tarn  praeclara,  &c.  '*  Have  you  made  so  diets
guished  and  honourable  expressions  of  opinion."  The  term  judicta
is  here  applied  to  the  honours  and  rewards  bestowed  upon  merit.
