9. =neque … potestātī=: ‘neither can anything be said to be more similar than the ancient dictatorship to the imperial power which,’ etc. _Imperium_ was the regular term for the power possessed by the magistrates. Here it refers to the power of the emperor. Eutropius explains for the benefit of his readers the ancient dictatorship, which had long since fallen into disuse, by comparing it to the power possessed by the emperor. 11. =Tranquillitās Vestra=: ‘Your Serene Highness’; Valens, Emperor of the East, 364-378 A.D. “Other titles used of the emperors were _Aeternitās Tua_, _Clēmentia Tua_, _Serēnitās Tua_, _Māgnitūdō Tua_, _Māiestās Tua_.” =Vestra=: in Latin of the classical period _tua_ would have been used, as only one person is referred to. In late Latin the pronouns of the second person plural take the place of the singular, just as ‘you’ has taken the place of ‘thou.’ 13. =sub dictātūrae nōmine=: in 45 B.C. Caesar was made perpetual dictator. CH. 13. 17. =populus= ＝ _plebs_ here. _Populus_ is a collective noun, and so takes a singular verb. =tamquam=: ‘on the ground that’; a late meaning. 18. =tribūnōs plēbis=: these magistrates, elected by the plebeians in an assembly of their own (Comitia Tributa), were invested with the right of ‘intercession,’ by which they could stop all legislation that they judged to be harmful to the plebeians. To make their intercession effective they were declared to be _sacrosancti_, _i.e._ ‘inviolable,’ and the curse of outlawry was pronounced against any one who harmed them. The First Secession of the Plebeians, as this was called, was the beginning of a long struggle between the orders, and terminated in the complete political equality of the plebeians. Ihne, Ch. XIII; Creighton, p. 12; Tighe, p. 91. 19. =per quōs= ＝ _ut per eōs_. PAGE 13. CH. 14. 2. =quam habēbant optimam= ＝ _optimam quam habēbant_. CH. 15. 5. =Q. Mārcius=: called _Coriolānus_ from the city Corioli, which he had conquered. Ihne, p. 155; Creighton, p. 21. 8. =oppūgnātūrus=: the Participle ＝ _oppūgnāvisset_. 9. =patriam suam=: ‘his native city.’ 12. =secundus=: really the first after Tarquinius, but the second in order. In an enumeration of a series the Latin generally includes the starting point. CH. 16. 14. =C. Fabiō et L. Virgīniō cōnsulibus=: lit. ‘C. Fabius and L. Virginius being consuls’ ＝ ‘in the consulship of,’ etc. One of the regular ways of dating events in Latin is to give the names of the consuls for that year. Another is to reckon the time from the founding of the city; cf. _ab urbe conditā_, Ch. 18. 15. =quī … erant=: ‘who belonged to the Fabian household’; cf. _centum ex seniōribus_, Ch. 2. 16. =prōmittentēs … implendum=: sc. _esse_; ‘promising the senate and the people that the whole contest would be completed by themselves.’ _Prōmittō_ regularly takes the Future Infinitive. 18. =quī singulī=: ‘each one of whom.’ =dēbērent=: cf. _esset_, Ch. 15. 19. =ūnus omnīnō superfuit=: see Ihne, p. 163.