J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition.

unde, where, lit. whence: the Latin conceives the speaker as proceeding from some point, whereas the English represents him as beginning at some point.

potissimum (superl. of potius, as if rathest), best (rather than anywhere else); cf. sect. 1, 1.3.

summam potestatem, unlimited power (i.e. with respect to rendering a verdict).

fidem, i.e. the protection required by good faith.

pater, etc.: these nominatives are in no grammatical construction, but are used to enumerate in a vivid way the crimes of the conspirators afterwards referred to by his (l. 26); cf. § 497 (292, a); B. 337, 5; G. 664, R.2; H. 636, 4 (549, N.2); H.-B. 608, 2.

infesta, imperilled.

nefariis, abl of instr. after cumulant: the idea in Latin is that of making a heap of what already exists, by means of other things piled on it (hence acc. and abl.); but translate, upon these they heap up other infamies.

hujusce (emphatic instead of ejus): translate by his own.

condicionem, terms (or dilemma): as containing the idea of a bargain, it is followed by ut; § 563, d (331, d); cf. B. 295,4; G. 546, N.2; H.564, iii (498, 1); H.-B. 502, 3, a.

cervices: this word is used by early writers in the plural only.

insutus in culeum: the old punishment for a parricide was to be "beaten with blood-red rods, then sewed into a sack, with a dog, a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown into the deep sea" (see below, sect. 29).

patronos: Cicero's modesty will not allow him to call himself a patronus (cf. note on p. 3, l. 17).

qui . . . dicat, purpose-clause: the antecedent is the subject of deest, below.