potest (emphatic position), etc., it may be said, i.e. in answer to the preceding arguments: of course, in order to justify the wisdom of so exceptional a measure as the Manilian Law, it was necessary to show that the war was of sufficient gravity to require the appointment of Pompey. Observe the skillful transition from the genus of the war to its magnitudo. belli genus, i.e. the war, in its character. elaborandum est: use the personal construction in translating. ornatas, equipped; instructas, organised. obsessam, invested; oppugnatam, attacked (by the active operations of siege): the verb besiege includes both ideas. This was B.C. 74.
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