Examining Individual Blows in a Fatal Brawl

Notes

1. §48.8.17.prictus — This is the accusative plural of the fourth-declension noun ictus, -us, serving as the direct object of the deponent infinitive contemplari after the impersonal verb oportet. Although it is homonymous with the nominative plural (which would allow a passive interpretation of contemplari with ictus as the subject), it is more natural to take it as the object in accordance with the typical active meaning of the deponent verb.
2. §48.8.17.prin hoc collectorum — collectorum is the genitive plural of the perfect passive participle of colligo used substantively ('of those who assembled'), serving as a partitive genitive modifying unius cuiusque. in hoc is an accusative neuter expression of purpose, meaning 'for this purpose' (i.e., for the quarrel).