The annals of Tacitus

76 NOTES
all rites which could only be performed by one who was so
circumstanced ; but in other matters she was to be on the same
footing as other women, i.e., I suppose, there was not, as a matter
of necessity, to be in maiiuni comicntio, as there had been up to
this period, by reason of her marriage j)(?r confarrcationem.'
flaminica Dlalis was not priestess of Juno as is commonly I
supposed ; b ut assisted her husband in the cult of Jupiter. She
also was subject to certain taboos or disabilities: e.g. on three
occasions in the religious year she might not appear in public
with her ha ir 'done up'; and she might on)y wpar shnpg m grlp
from the skin of a sacrificial victim [Wards Fowler, pp. 35, 36].
17. cetera, ace. of respect with ageret, ' should live in all
other respects.' This use of ago is very common in Tacitus.
promisee... iure, 'with the ordinary rights of women.'
18. patri suffectus. Cf. in locum defuncti (line 1) and the
phrase consul suffectus.
19. glisceret, ' be increased.' Cf. c. 5.
20. ad capessendas caerimonias, ' to undertake religious
duties.'
21. capiebatur. See note on line 4, and cf. ii 86 capiendam
uirginem in locum Occiae.
22. sestertium uiciens, ' two million sesterces,' i.e. about
£17,000 in our money.
Tiber,
—
23. sedes inter Vestalium. For the anastrophe cf. c. 8.
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1. Visellio Varrone. He was one of the ' conservators ' of the
curator riparum et aluei Tiheris, as we learn from an
inscription quoted by N.
3. pro incolumitate principis, offered regularly on Jan. 3rd,
to be distinguished from those oifered for the State on Jan. 1st.
See c. 70.
5. caritate...aduIatioiie, abl. of cause.
quae moribus...iiimia est, 'and in a corrupt age flattery is
equally perilous, whether it is non-existent or excessive.' For
si...ubi cf. i 44.