[sect. 3]
in Italiam: i.e. to Luca.
Romano more: cf. more Romano, Ep. XXI.3n, and more maiorum, Ep. I.1n.
bene nummatum: a colloquial expression which Horace adopts for comic effect (Epp. 1.6.38) perhaps from this passage. Cf. also Cic. de leg. Agr. 2.59.
quod negent: cf. diceret, Ep. 1.3 n.
respondere: here with a double meaning, viz., to reply to and to give legal advice to. Cf. cautior, Ep. XXV.2n.
constat [gap in text] peritiorem esse: Trebatius could at least congratulate himself upon discovering a place where he was the most learned lawyer because he was the only one. Cf. quotation, Ep. XXI. (end).