plebeian
tribune, whereby advocates were forbidden to take fees from their clients,
and certain limitations were placed on gifts of property by private
persons. -- CUM ... ESSET: '_though_ he was'; so below 11, 30, etc. --
GRANDIS: = _grandis natu_. -- IUVENILITER: Hannibal was 29 years of age
when he entered Italy in 218. -- EXSULTANTEM: 'wildly roaming'. The word in
its literal sense is used of a horse galloping at its own will over a
plain. The metaphorical use is common in Cicero; cf. Acad. 2, 112 _cum sit
campus in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur eam tantas in angustias
compellimus?_ -- PATIENTIA: 'endurance', 'persistence'; it is not
equivalent to our 'patience'. -- PRAECLARE: _sc. dicit_; cf. n. on 3. --
FAMILIARIS: see Introd. -- UNUS HOMO etc.: these lines were famous, and
were not only often quoted with the name of Ennius attached (as in Off. 1,
84; Livy 30, 26), but also imitated or adapted without mention of his name,
as, being too familiar to need it; cf. Att. 2, 19, 2; Ovid, Fast. 2, 241;
Verg. Aen. 6, 846; Suet. Tib. 21. -- CUNCTANDO: Cf. Polybius 3, 105, 8. On
Fabius' military policy consult Mommsen, Hist. of Rome, Bk. III. ch. 5. --
REM: here = _rem publicam_. -- NOENUM: the older form from which _non_ is
an abbreviation; = _ne-oinom_, _n-oinom_, literally 'not one thing'; cf.
_nihil_ = _ne-hilum_ 'not a whit', also the rare word _ningulus_ = _ne
oinculus_, 'not even a little one'. -- RUMORES: 'fame', 'public opinion'.
-- PONEB[=A]T: for the long vowel cf. n. on 1, l. 2 _versat_. -- PLUSQUE:
MSS. _postque_; _plusque_is the emendation of Bernays. _Plusque magisque_
is a variation upon the ordinary phrases _plus plusque_, _magis magisque_.

11. SALINATORI: there can be no doubt that Cicero is guilty of a blunder
here, and in De Or. 2, 273 where the story also occurs. Livy (27, 34, 7)
gives M. Livius Macatus as the name of the Roman commander who held the
citadel of Tarentum while Hannibal was in possession of the town. Cicero
probably found the commander described by the annalists merely as M. Livius
(so in Livy 24, 20, 13; 26, 39, 1), and then jumped to tne conclusion that
he was the famous M. Livius Salinator. This man, the father of the
Salinator mentioned in 7, was consul in 219 and subdued the Illyrians, but
was condemned for misappropriation of public moneys and went into exile. In
210 he was induced to return by the desire of the senate. In 207 he became
consul with C. Claudius Nero, and defeated Ha