20.  DigUuUat^  exsorbuiL     **  He  patiently  encountered  emij

difficulty."    The  literal  meaning  of  thia  phrase  is  coarae,  bat  ex

pressive.      *^  He  gulped  down  eyeiy  difficulty,*'  and  made  the  ban

of  it.
204    1.  Inea  sdentta,    **  In  that  branch  of  kpowledge.*'     AUndiiV

to  the  civil  or  Roman  law.
2.  Legatus  L,  LucuUofuU.  in  the  Mithridatic  war.  Hie  kte
had  been  a  lieutenant  of  Sylla'a  in  the  same  war. —  Qua  in  Ingoiitm.
**  During  which  lieutenancy."

3.  Sigru^conhdii  ;  maamm  canseruit.  **  He  engaged ;  he  foq^
hand  to  hand  with  the  foe.*'  Manum  coruerere  refers  here  to  the
personal  prowess  of  Murena. — Signa  conferre  is  merely  '*  to  «»>
gage,"  « to  join  battle,"  but  tnanum  conserere^  "  to  ocme  to
dose  quarters,"  <<  to  fight  hand  to  hand,"  6lc,  Compare  the  Qieek
form  of  ezpression,  ^lyvvvai  rig  x'^P^f-

4.  Asiam  istam  refertam^  dec.  «  That  Asia  of  yoara»  eiowded
with  riches,  and  the  abode  of  voluptuousness."  -The  pronoon  ttia
has  here  its  uscal  force :  that  Asia  which  you  make  u  aouite  of  re-
proach to  him,  and  about  hia  conduct  in  which  yon  are  ccmtinualli
declaiming.
L.    MURENA.  '  387

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6.  Sic  est  versaius.  **  He  so  conducted  himself."  Literally,  "he  \Q4
fOB  so  employed."

6.  Concessam  Ucentiam  fingendi.      **  The  privilege  allowed  us
of  uttering  mere  fictions,"  i.  e.  of  exaggerating  the  services  df  Ma
rena, — PublicU  Uteris.      *^  By  the  despalehes  of  that  commander.*

7.  Summa  in  utroque,  &c.  "  There  is,  then,  in  each  the  highest
reputation,  the  greatest  personal  merit;  which,  if  Servius  shall
allow  me  so  to  do,  I  will  consider  entitled  to  equal  and  similar  praise.
But  no  such  thing  is  allowed  me.  He  makes  a  brisk  attack  on  the
military  art,  he  inveighs  against,"  &c.
