The annals of Tacitus

72 NOTES
3. flrmaretur would be confirmaretur in the best Latin.
4. Amphictyonum, the Ampbictyonic Council, of which we
read so much in Demosthenes, meetiug in the spring at Delphi
and in the autu mn pt TiiormApylao
quis...iudicium, 'who had the supreme decision in all such
matters.'
5. qua tempestate, ' at the time when...,'—found also in this
sense in Cicero, Sallust, and Livy ; also in poetry.
8. accedebat meritum ex loco, 'besides there was a special
service connected with the place.'
9. templo induxerant. For the dative cf. v 1 penatibus suis
induxerit.
iussu Mithridatis, in 88. b.c, when 80,000 Boman citizens
were massacred. Many sanctuaries were violated on this.
occasion.
11. uariis...questibus, ' after various complaints.'
praetorum, who had the ins ludorum, i.e. charge of public
12. inmodestia, ' misconduct.'
13. rettulit, i.e. drew attention to the subject in the Senate.
14. Oscum ludicrum . By
the '
I
'
' Q^cru Dram^ is meant the
performance ot the" Fqhyl.i;u> AtAhmnf comedies originally
performed by amateurs, but now taken up by lllf} fnfpssio
r vanlmnimi . See Livy vii 2. ^
15. leuissimae...oblectationis, gen. of quality,— 'charac-
terised by the most frivolous amusement.'
16. uirium, ' violence,' not ' influence,' as some take it.
17. pulsi histriones Italia. They were restored by Ca ligujfl.
According to Suetonius, the punishment was not so universal.
He says (Tib. 87): caede in theatro per discordiam admissa,
capita factiomnn et histriones, propter quos dissidebatur, relegauit.
But Dio Cassius makes it more general.
15
2. alterum ex geminis, about four years old.
extinguendo. See note on c. 2.