[1] The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is third person singular, aorist indicative active, of the verb poqe/w (pi 1860, pi 1863).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler notes Valckenaer's attribution to Polybius.) It contains, as indicated, a textual problem. The translation given here renders as plausibly as possible (but still not very plausibly) the text adopted by Adler, that of mss FVM, which leaves a disembodied feminine accusative definite article that might conceivably be understood in context as referring to "the [way]", as conjectured here, or "the [land]". Ms A offers i(ppe/a|s and mss GI i(ppe/an in place of i(ppe/as ('horsemen'). One of these unlikely forms may have inspired the reading found in the Basel edition of 1549, i(ppei/an ('cavalry'), which provides a noun for the article and renders the translation somewhat more intelligible ("Scipio desired that the cavalry appear through the infantrymen who were with him.").