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autem, but (though he professed such readiness to serve them). antiqui, men of the old stamp. Pl. Ep. 11.9, vir sanctus, anitiquus. fingerent, formed their ideas of. vacua, unoccupied; as they would be, if the forcible appropriation were made null and void. adpromitteret, added his promise to that of Chrysogonus: a ἅπαξ λεγόμενον. re inorata, without getting their case heard; from the old meaning of orare = agere, to plead, whence orator in early Latin = legatus, one who pleaded or transacted an affair for the State. aliquanto lentius nihil agere: some critics formerly omitted nihil, not appreciating the vigour of the phrase did nothing, trifled, still more indolently. It should be retained. Without nihil, agere= behaved.
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