[Linenotes: 1. +Nam+, sc. ‘His luck is not so great as he supposes, for...’ 7-8. +tribuniciam ... evorsum+, i.e. by the Leges Corneliae 81 B.C. 9. +iudicia.+ Sulla restored the judicial functions to the Senate (from the Equites). 10. +relegati in paludes.+ Sulla established 120,000 soldiers in military colonies in different parts of Italy, but their roaming adventurous life had unfitted them for agricultural pursuits. 13-14. +Quia ... obtentui+ = _because prosperity serves in a marvellous manner to cover a man’s faults of character_. --Holden. For +obtentui+ cf. _draw a veil over_. 16. +parricidio+ = _treason_. 18. +nisi ... agris+, i.e. Sulla’s confiscations of estates, especially of those Italians who had fought against him. 24-25. +ad p. R. circumveniundum+ = _for oppressing_ (enslaving) _the people of Rome_.] +M. Aemillus Lepidus+, Consul 78 B.C., a disappointed Optimate, jealous of Sulla’s power, but without Sulla’s ability. He posed as leader of the democratic party, took up arms against the State, but was defeated by Q. Catulus at the Milvian Bridge, 77 B.C. B20 WAR WITH SERTORIUS IN SPAIN, 78-72 B.C. (1) _Sertorius and his Fawn._ Huic Sertorio cerva alba eximiae pulchritudinis et vivacissimae celeritatis a Lusitano quodam dono data est. Hanc sibi oblatam divinitus, et instinctam Dianae numine colloqui secum, monereque, et docere, quae utilia factu essent, persuadere omnibus instituit: {5} ac, si quid durius videbatur, quod imperandum militibus foret, a cerva sese monitum tum praedicabat. Id cum dixerat, universi, tamquam si deo, libentes parebant. Ea cerva quodam die, cum incursio esset hostium nuntiata, festinatione ac tumultu consternata {10} in fugam se proripuit, atque in palude proxima delituit; et postea requisita perisse credita est. Neque multis diebus post inventam esse cervam Sertorio nuntiatur. Tum, qui nuntiaverat, iussit tacere: ac, ne cui palam diceret, interminatus est: {15} praecepitque, ut eam postero die repente in eum locum, in quo ipse cum amicis esset, immitteret: admissis deinde amicis postridie, visum sibi esse ait in quiete cervam, quae perisset, ad se reverti, et, ut prius consueverat, quod opus esset facto praedicare. {20} Tum servo, quod imperaverat, significat. Cerva emissa in cubiculum Sertorii introrupit; clamor factus et orta admiratio est: eaque hominum barbarorum credulitas Sertorio in magnis rebus magno usui fuit. {25} GELLIUS, _Noctes Atticae_, xv. 22. [Linenotes: 1. +alba+ = a _dull_ white as opp. to +ater+ = _dull_ black. Cf. +candidus+ = _shining_ white as opp. to +niger+ = _shining_ black. 3. +instinctam+ = _fired_, _animated_. 15. +interminatus+ = _he forbade with threats_. +inter + minor+, freq. in Plautus and Terence. 23-25. ‘Sertorius did not disdain to turn to account the superstition of the ruder Spanish tribes, and to have his plans of war brought to him as commands of Diana by the white fawn of the goddess.’ --M.]