hic, my client. de, in accordance with. cognatorum, blood-relations: these were accustomed to hold a consilium, or formal deliberation, on important family affairs,—like the modern 'family council' of the French. Caeciliam: see sect. 50. honoris causa: cf. note on sect. 5, p. 3, l. 28, above. qua . . . plurimum, whose especial friendship his father had enjoyed. Id quod, etc., i.e. she showed on this occasion (nunc) the generous traits which everybody supposed she possessed quasi causa as if to serve as a model. antiqui offici, old-fashioned fidelity: officium means the performance of duties as well as the duties themselves domo, without the prep., while bonis requires ex § 42;7 I (258, a); B. 229, 2, b; G. 390, 2; H.462, 4 (412, ii i) H-B 451 a vivus . . . referretur, brought alive to trial, rather than murdered and put on the proscription list § 5 ; (332;, a); B. 297 ; G. 553, i; H.571, 1 (501, i); cf. H.-B. 521, 3, a. This implies that their first plan was to treat him as they had treated his father but that, frustrated in this, they have trumped up a charge of parricide against him.
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