LATN002: ELEMENTARY LATIN

Valleius Paterculus, Historia Romana II.18.1-3: By Phrase

Notationes
The historian describes a Roman enemy in the East in 88 BCE:

Per ea tempora
Catalogue: note how the first eight attribute
Mithridātēs, ascribed to Mithradates appear in balanced
pairs. What effect does this patterning have on
Ponticus rēx, the final descriptor: odiō in Rōmānōs
Hannibal?
vir neque silendus
neque dīcendus sine cūrā,
bellō ācerrimus,
virtūte eximius,
aliquandō fortūnā,
semper animō maximus,
cōnsiliīs dux,
mīles manū,
odiō in Rōmānōs Hannibal,
occupātā Asiā
necātīsque in eā omnibus cīvibus Rōmānīs,
quōs quidem
eādem diē atque hōrā
redditīs cīvitātibus litterīs
ingentī cum pollicitātiōne praemiōrum
interimī iusserat,
 Notationes
quō tempore
quō tempore: i.e. at the same time as necātīs...
neque fortitūdine Rōmānīs.

adversus Mithridātem
neque fide
in Rōmānōs
quisquam Rhodiīs pār fuit
hōrum fidem
Mytilēnaeōrum perfidia
illumināvit,
quī quī and quibus: sc. the Mytilēnaeī.

M. Aquilium
aliōsque Mithridātī vīnctōs [Mithridātī with tradidērunt]
tradidērunt,
quibus
lībertās
in ūnīus Theophanis grātiam
posteā
ā Pompeiō
restitūta est
cum terribilis: at last the periodic sentence
cum terribilis Italiae returns to Mithradates, adding one final piece
of circumstantial information.
quoque vidērētur
imminēre,
sorte obvēnit
Sullae
Asia prōvincia.