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68 NOTES<br />
12. atrociorc.exitus, 'rumour being aiwajs inclined to the<br />
horrible when dealing with the deaths <strong>of</strong> princes.' For erga...<br />
exitus cf. c. 20 and 74.<br />
13. ordo...sceleris, 'all the details <strong>of</strong> the crime.' Cf. Livy<br />
iii 50 ordine cuncta exposuit and xl 55 ordinem omnem facinoris<br />
exposuit.<br />
alioqui, ' besides. ' <strong>The</strong> word usually means ' in other respects<br />
or 'in general.'<br />
14. Apicatam Seiani. For vxor understood cf. Virgil's<br />
Hectoris Andromache {Aeii. iii 319); Cic. ad Att. xii 20 Seniiliae<br />
Claudii. <strong>Tacitus</strong> (in xii. 1) has Lolliam Paulinam M. Lollii<br />
consularis, where we must understand fiUam.<br />
17. conquirerent, ' raked up .'<br />
intenderent, ' exaggerated.' See note on c. 2.<br />
19. auditiones, abstract for concrete. Cf. Cic. pro Plancio<br />
56 fictae auditiones.<br />
20. cura nostra uenerit, ' my<br />
work may fall.' cura is again<br />
used for 'literary work' in iii 24; and N. quotes Ovid ex Panto<br />
ii 4, 16 hoc pretium curae dulce recentis erat.<br />
22. in miraculum corruptis. Cf. Thuc. i 21 eirl to fMudwdes<br />
€KveuiKrjK6ra.<br />
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2. habitum, ' bearing,' ' demeanour.'<br />
dolentum. So also in c. 41, according to the Mediceau. N.<br />
compares xi 22 salutantum and vi 50 gratantum.<br />
3. libens, ' voluntarily,' ' from the heart.' Cf. c. 58 and<br />
xiv 61 libens quam coactus.<br />
induebat, ' put on,' ' assumed,'—a very frequent metaphor in<br />
<strong>Tacitus</strong>. So too is exuo.<br />
4. quod principium...adcelerauere, 'but this beginning <strong>of</strong><br />
popularity and the ill-concealed hopes <strong>of</strong> their mother Agrippina<br />
only hastened their ruin.'<br />
'5. mater spem male teg'ens. This idiomatic use is very I<br />
common with the past participle, but rare with the presen t.<br />
Cf. c. 34 id perniciahile reo et Caesar truci uultu de/eiisionem I<br />
accipiens.<br />
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