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SYNTAX<br />
in enumerations, often leading up to a climax, villas arva vicos, xiii<br />
57, 5 ; ratione consilio praeceptis, xiv 55, 4 ; senatores eques miles<br />
feminae etiam, xv 48, I ; and in antitheses, plana edita xv 27, 4.<br />
49 [66]. Adverbs are used as adjectives, attributively, as in Greek,<br />
honestis an secus amicis, xiii 6, 6 ; [cuncta extra, xiii 41, 4] ; nulla<br />
palam causa, xiv 32, i ; cuncta circum, xv 39, i ; cf. circum, xvi<br />
3, 2 predicatively as dicta inpune erant, i 72, ; 3 ; id . . . inpune<br />
. . . vertit, xiii 32, 5.<br />
50 [67]. Tamquam, quasi, and (less frequently) velut are used—<br />
(a) of something falsely pretended or alleged as reason for the<br />
action described, quasi subsidium . . . oraret . . . genibus principis<br />
accidens, xv 53, 2 ; ficta valetudine quasi aeger nervis, xv 45, 5 ;<br />
tamquam Naxum deveheretur Ostiam amotus, xvi 9, 2 :<br />
(d) but often the reason alleged may be taken as the real one, or<br />
at any rate believed in by the person alleging it ; intercessit . . .<br />
tamquam satis expleta ultione, xiii 43, 7 ; so xiv 41, i ; xv 59, 7 ;<br />
Neapolim quasi Graecam urbem delegit, xv 33, 2 ; gestabat velut<br />
. . , sacrum, xv 53, 3<br />
:<br />
{c) and in some passages these particles simply introduce a<br />
reported speech or thought ; vulgi opinio est tamquam mutationem<br />
regis portendat, xiv 22, i ; so after ' nuntios,' xiv 59, 2 ; after<br />
' rumore,' xv 73, 2 ; vulgato . . . quasi, xiv 8, i ; conscientia quasi,<br />
xiv 10, 5.<br />
Note also xiv 52, 2, where 'tamquam' and 'quasi' are co-<br />
ordinated with and used as variants for ' quod.'<br />
Other references are, for 'tamquam,' xiii 28, 5 ; xiii 33, 4; xiv<br />
33, 6 : for 'quasi,' xiii 18, 3 ; xiii 38, 6; xiv 65, i ; xv 50, ; 4 and<br />
for ' velut,' xvi 2, i.<br />
B. STYLE<br />
I. Innovations in Vocabulary.<br />
51 [69, 70]. Tacitus constantly prefers unusual forms, as claritudo,<br />
tirmitudo, to the fo.ms in -as cognomentum to the form in -men ;<br />
;<br />
medicamen, tegumen, to the forms in -mentum besides introducing<br />
;<br />
words not previously found, or found only in poets.<br />
The following are some of the most noticeable :<br />
(a) New verbal substantives, expressing (i) Agent, concertator,<br />
xiv 29, 2; patrator, xiv 62, 3; profligator, xvi 18, i : (2) Action,<br />
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