Department of State Bulletin (Volume 38, Jan- Mar 1958)

. 1893 edition.: ...that is to say accident, must bestow success; and with this may be connected the circumstance that he so often played a desperate game with destiny' (Mommsen I.e.). quantumcumque est, 'whatever it amounts to, ' is ambiguous, 7. often implying a small amount; hence the next words, ' and it does amount to something very considerable. Contrast the sense in Verg. Aen. i. 78 tu mihi quodcumque hoc regni.. concilias, 'this little kingdom.' inquam, generally inserted when the same word (or idea) is reiterated: cp. infra 28; Lig. 15 quam tu per te, per te, inquam obtines; Deiot. 8. istius gloriae, viz. 'which you have just won by your act of magnanimity' n. on Lig. 10. tuam esse, sc. istam gloriam. 'That the praise of it is wholly and inalienably yours.' numquam temeritas.. commiscetur, neque.. admittitur; there is a parallelism of meaning between the clauses. 'For venturesomeness will never blend with prudence: and hazard does not enter into a wisely-laid plan.' inmanitate barbaras instead of inm. barbara to preserve the 8. symmetry of the phrases. Inmanis (in-, manus) from meaning 'unmanageable' comes to mean 'savage' 'barbarous' as the old word manus (whence 'Manes' good spirits) meant 'good'; cp. Xttprl9ri$, mansuetus, tvxtpfs. So Lig. 11 inmanes barbari. Of things, 'inhuman, ' versus; Deiot. 25, cp. ib. 32. eopiarum, 'resources'; so Deiot. 14. condicio (from condico, 'stipulate') (a) 'terms offered' as in Deiot. 11: (b) 'conditions' in a logical sense: the fact or facts which are involved in anything and must be accepted with it, Marc. 12 ipsius victoriae c.: (c) hence 'position' or 'situation, ' never quite 'state' regia c. Deiot. 3: (d) 'constitution, 'coupled with natura and almost its equivalent here. The sentence implies, strictly speaking, that in conquering himself Caesar won a victory which in the natural order of things is impossible; it...