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ON CHAPTERS 12—14 71<br />
bavin}:! helped,'—a thoroughly Tacitean usage. Cf. c. 10 and 13 ;<br />
also i 12 inuisus tamquavi...agituret. Note that tamquam in such<br />
jtassages does not imply the falseness <strong>of</strong> the allegation.<br />
13. insulam Cercinam, in the lesser Syrtes <strong>of</strong>f the north<br />
coast <strong>of</strong> Africa.<br />
14. ' artium . accomplishments .' Cf. c. 6.<br />
mox,' subsequently,' not ' soon.'<br />
15. mutando sordidas merces, ' by engaging in petty trade.'<br />
Cf. Cic. de <strong>of</strong>f. i 150 inliberuh'H et sordidi qimestiis. Livy (xxi 63)<br />
says that all trade (quucstus) was looked upon as indecorus for<br />
senators.<br />
16. magnae fortunae, ' <strong>of</strong> high rank,'— the ordinary meaning<br />
oi fort una in <strong>Tacitus</strong>.<br />
17. Aelius Lamia, addressed by Horace (Odes i 26, iii 17).<br />
L. Apronius had served under Germanicus in Germany (i 56).<br />
qui Africam obtinuerant, ' who<br />
had held Africa,'—i.e. as<br />
governors. <strong>The</strong> verb is very frequent in this sense.<br />
18. claritudine infausti generi s, ' on account <strong>of</strong> bis illustrious<br />
and ill-starred name' [ R-l—alluding to the celebrated Gracchi.<br />
19. foret abstractus, 'would have been ruined,'— lit. 'would<br />
have been hurried <strong>of</strong>f.' Supply ad pernicievi. Cf. Hist, iv 2 nee<br />
perinde prosperis socius quam aduersis abstractus.<br />
14<br />
1. quoque, i.e. like the previous year.<br />
2. habnit. We say ' saw.' Cf. xiii 33 idem annus plures<br />
reos habuit.<br />
Sainiis...petentibus, 'the Samians petitioning that the old<br />
rights <strong>of</strong> sanctuary should be confirmed to the temple <strong>of</strong> Juno,<br />
the people <strong>of</strong> Cos making the same request for their temple <strong>of</strong><br />
Aesculapius.<br />
'<br />
lunonis. For the famous Heraenm <strong>of</strong> Samos see Herodotus<br />
ii 148, iii 60.<br />
Aesculapii. Cos was the p;reat centre <strong>of</strong> this cul t. <strong>The</strong> ' son s<br />
' <strong>of</strong> AescuTapms had a famous medical school there : and the grea t<br />
doctor Hippocrates was born and lived there.