ac ne, etc., nor must you neglect this point either. cum essem . . . dicturus: see above, sect. 6, where the divisions of the subject are specified. quod . . . pertinet, which bears upon, etc. The antecedent is illud. nam et corresponds to deinde (sect. 18). Two classes are mentioned: (1) the publicani or tax-farmers, and (2) other citizens who have money invested in Asia (sect. 18). rationes, business enterprises; copias, fortunes. in illam provinciam, i.e. the farming of the revenues there. ipsorum per se, for their own sake (i.e. apart from all question of the safety of the revenues). nervos: the same figure is seen in our phrase "the sinews of war." eum . . . ordinem, i.e. the equites these not only farmed the taxes, but they were, in general, the capitalists and bankers of Rome.
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