| 1 | Apión: Greek nom. sg. Apion was an Alexandrian literary critic. | |
| Plístonícés: Greek nom. sg. 'victor in the most contests', usually used of athletes. (plístos or pleistos means 'the most', as in the Pleistocene Age, which is the most recent geologically, and nícé or níké means victory, as in Nike tennis shoes and Nike, the Winged Victory of Samothrace.) | ||
| 2 | omnium: depends on historia. | |
| 3 | audísse: shortened ('syncopated') form of audívísse. | |
| sésé: alternate form of sé. | ||
| sáné quam: 'decidedly, extremely, exceptionally': a weird idiom. | ||
| 8 | admírátióní What kind of dative is this? | |
| 14 | vidérés: What kind of subjunctive is this? | |
| 15 | parsísset: parsí is an irregular third principal part of parcó, parcere, pepercí, 'to spare', which takes the dative. | |
| 17 | aliquó pactó: 'in some way'. | |
| 18 | specus/specú can be any one of three genders. Which is it here, and how do you know? | |
| 19 | multó: What kind of ablative is this? | |
| édens: from édó, édere, édidí, éditum, 'to give out, produce, emit', a compound of dare, not to be confused with edó, edere, édí, ésum, 'to eat', which is found in § 25. | ||
| 21 | ré ipsá: 'in fact, in reality'. | |
| 22 | conceptam: here = 'collected'. | |
| 26 | relíquí: Is this a verb or an adjective? How can you tell? | |
| 27 | rés capitális: = 'capital charge, death-penalty case'. The case is the so-called 'genitive of the charge', as in English when one is accused or convicted of a crime. | |
| 28 | referre: here = 'pay back'. | |
| hospes, -itis, MF.: 'guest' or 'host'? - only the context tells. Which is it here? |