sequitur illud, the next point is this: § 597, d, i (344, d, I); Cf. H.-B. 625. contra rem publicam factam: a technical phrase, amounting to "unlawful (unconstitutional) violence"; cf. our "a breach of the peace." illam, i.e. caedem. sententiis, .e. its expressed vote; studiis, i.e. the interest it displayed in Milo's behalf? nec tacitis, loudly; nec occultis, in plain terms. declarant: to preserve the emphasis we may change the voice, — it is shown by, etc. hujus ambusti tribuni: the body of Clodius, left in the highway, had been picked up and sent to Rome, where its wounds were exposed to public gaze till, in the fury of the time, it was dragged to the Senate-house. Here a funeral-pile was made of desks, benches, and other furniture, and in the conflagration the Senate-house itself, with several other buildings, was destroyed. The tribune T. Munatius Plancus, who incited the mob to burn the body, is called ambustus, fire-scorched, because his influence suffered in the reaction of public feeling which followed the unintended conflagration; hence, too, his harangues (contiones) are referred to as still-born (intermortuae). potentiam, unlawful domination. officiosos, serviceable, in the way of forensic advocacy. sane, if you like; or for aught I care.
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