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36.8.

desperare, etc., to be discouraged about the commander's doing his duty. Such words as officium have a wider range of meaning in Latin than similar words in English, as duty, a duty, sense of duty, discharge of duty.praescribere: sc. officium; i.e. that they were dictating to him what his duty was.


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