sense of 'prince', as in Verr. 4, 61 and elsewhere; βασιλευς is used in
exactly the same way in a passage of the Oeconomicus which comes a little
before the one Cic. is here rendering (4, 16). -- LYSANDER: the great
commander who in 405 B.C. won the battle of Aegospotamos against the
Athenians. -- SARDIS: acc. pl.; _-is_ represents Gk. -εις. -- CONSAEPTUM
AGRUM: 'park'; the phrase is a translation of Xenophon's παραδεισον; this
will account for the omission of _et_ before _diligenter consitum_. --
DILIGENTER: 'carefully'. -- PROCERITATES: the plural probably indicates the
height of each _kind_ of tree. -- QUINCUNCEM: thus:·:·:·:·:·:·: This was
the order of battle in the Roman army during a great part of its history.
The cause for this application of the term is rather difficult to see; it
originally meant five-twelfths of an _uncia_; possibly it was thus applied
because by drawing lines between the points the letter V (five) might be
produced. As regards its application to trees, see Verg. Georg. 2, 277-284.
-- PURAM: so the farmers talk of 'cleaning' the land. -- DIMENSA: notice
the passive use of this participle, originally deponent; cf. n. on 4
_adeptam_. -- DISCRIPTA: 'arranged'; so _discriptio_ a little farther on.
Cf. n. on 5 _descriptae_. -- ORNATUM: 'costume', used by Latin writers of
any dress a little unfamiliar. So in Plaut. Miles 4, 4, 41 (1177 R)
_ornatus nauclericus_.

60. IMPEDIT: _sc. nos_; with this construction the pronoun is always
omitted. -- VALERIUM: when a young man, in 349 B.C., he engaged in combat
with a Gaul, in sight of the Roman and Gallic armies, and came off victor
by the aid of a raven, _corvus_; hence the name Corvinus (Liv. 7, 26). His
first consulship was in 348, his last in 299; Cic. has miscalculated.
Valerius was also twice dictator and is said to have held altogether 21
terms of curule offices. -- PERDUXISSE: _sc. agri colendi studia_. Cf.
Lael. 33 _quod -- perduxissent_. -- ESSET: cf. n. on 21. -- AETATE: here =
the vigorous period of life; cf. _bona aetas_ in 48. -- CURSUS HONORUM: