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Often appears with: triumph and imperator · roman offices · province assignments · forms of government · diplomacy and embassies
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · detachment (1)
The notes elaborate on Roman offices, honors like triumphs, logistical details about provinces and plots against consuls, and terminological points such as “imperator” and “pactione provinciae.”
facetiae, multusque lepos inerat.* Both *facetiae* and *lepos_ mean "agreeableness, humor, pleasantry," but *lepos* here seems to refer to diction, as in Cic. Orat. i. 7: *Magnus in jocando lepos.* [142] XXVI. By an arrangement respecting their provinces--_Pactione provinciae_. This passage has been absurdly misrepresented by most translators, except De Brosses. Even Rose, who was a scholar, translated *pactione pro…