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"Since I was thus to be reduced to such an extremity of wretchedness, I could wish that I were able to implore your aid, Conscript Fathers, rather for the sake of my own services than those of my ancestors; I could wish, indeed, above all, that acts of kindness were due to me from the Romans, of which I should not stand in need; and, next to this,Next to this] Secundum ea. "Priscianus, lib. xiii., de præpositione agens Secundum, inquit, quando pro κατὰ et μετὰ accipitur, loco prœpositionis est. Sallustius in Jugurthino: secundum ea, uti deditis uterer. —Videlicet hoc dicit, Secundum in Sallustii exemplo, post vel proximè significare."Rivius. that, if I required your services, I might receive them as my due. But as integrity is no defense in itself, and as I had no power to form the character of Jugurtha,As I had no power to form the character of Jugurtha] Neque mihi in manu fuit, qualis Jugurtha foret. "In manu, fuit is simply in potestate fuit.—Ter. Hec., iv. 4, 44: Uxor quid faciat in manu non est meâ."Cortius. I have fled to you, Conscript Fathers, to whom, what is the most grievous of all things, I am compelled to become a burden before I have been an assistance.