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XXXIX. credidisset, without object, = fidem habuisset, as in Tusc. 5.58. Richter compares § 59 defensurus esset, § 61 iudicare, § 70 prohibere, admonere, etc., used absolutely.
Itane est : see § 34, note. commendatae, stronger form for mandatae (so concreditae for creditae). inter vivos numerabitur : i.e. he deserves to count for dead as a citizen. The same expression is used of a dishonoured citizen, pro Quinct. 49, cuius bona venierunt, cuius . . . etiam victus vestitusque necessarius sub praeconem cum dedecore subiectus est, is non modo ex numero vivorum exturbatur, sed si fieri potest, infra etiam mortuoa amandatur. Cf. post Red. ad Quir. 10. etiam neglegentia . . . vocatur, even mere neglect is compelled to meet an accusation for breach of trust and a trial with the penalty of dishonour. Crimen mandati = an accusation for (breach of) trust, like iudicium mandati, § l 11, where see notes. si recte fiat, if all were done as it should be. Cicero says, it is the giver of a commission, not the receiver, who may take no concern about it (neglegere) ; since the former has transferred the whole care to the latter. publice : see § 25, decurionum decretum statim fit, and § 115. legationis ipsius. Cicero regards an embassy as the most sacred form of a mandatum maculaque adfecerit, instead of the more common adsperserit (pro Planc. 30), for a play on poena adficietur.
ei, i.e. Capitoni ; fidem suam, i.e. Capitos own credit ; interponeret, stake ; decideret, strike a bargain ; ille, Capito. inque eam rem. Cicero more often writes in eamque rem. recepisset, had undertaken, promised. per arbitrum. There were many lawsuits which depended on considerations of equity and the weighing of circumstances, and in which the judge could give his own opinions free play. Such of these cases as dealt with matters of good faith (bonae fidei negotia) were called arbitria (or bonae fidei iudicia), and the judge arbiter. One of this class was the iudicium mandati ; hence per arbitrum. rem restitueret, make restitution, pay damages. Cf. Paullus in Dig. L. 16.75, restituere is videtur, qui id restituit quod habiturus esset actor (the plaintiff) si controversia ei facta non esset. honestatem (good name ) amitteret = infamis fieret.
nunc, as it is =νῦν δὲ : as in § 148. publice, in the name of the municipium : cf. voluntatem decurionum ac muiticipum below. ex eo, out of all this, sc. fama, vita, bonis. paulum nescio quid, a small trifle : cf. de Or. n 95, paullum aliquid (literally, not some small thing, but a small something). In both cases paullum is adjectival, and the pronoun substantival ; otherwise it would be paulli aliquid (cf. pulcri aliquid, quiddam novi, etc.), or else paullum aliquod
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