The annals of Tacitus

78 NOTES
10. mansurum, sc.fuisse.
si iis...fuisset, 'if disaffection had spread to his own legions.'
11. destrui... Caesar, 'the Emperor felt that by such pre-
tensions his own position was lowered.' fortuna often denotes
'position,' 'rank' in Tacitus, especially imperial rank.
13. beneflcia... posse, 'benefits are only welcome so long as it
seems possible to discharge them.'
14. ubi multum anteuenere, ' when they have far exceeded
that limit.' Notice how fond Tacitus is of ending a chapter with
a pungent epigram like this. The word anteuenio is not found
elsewhere.
15. pro gratia odium redditur. Ritter quotes Seneca Epist.
19 qiiidam quo ^j/ks debcnt inagif: oderunt ; leue aes aiienum
debitorem facit, grane inimicum.
19
1. caritate Agrippinae. The gen. is objective.
2. principi. See Introduction v.
hos corripi...placituni, ' it was determined to attack both Silius
and Sabinus.'
3. Sabino, i.e. the trial of Sabinus. See c. 68-70.
inmissus, ' let loose,' ' set on,' i.e. to prosecute. The metaphor
is from letting loose animals. Cf. Suet. Nero 43 urbem incendere,
feris in pojiidum immissis.
qui paternas.gratiflcabatur, 'who on pretence of having
some quarrel of his father's to avenge was ready to sacrifice
his own honour lionour to abet the animosities ^of of Sejanus' Sejanus [R.]. [R.J. See
iii 43.ttjLj
6.
(Varro) to vacate his office.'
7. solitum quippe, 'for it was customary, he urged....'
8. cuius uigiliis niteretur, ' on whose vigilance he de-
pended....'
mi...a!^aat[niaaA,—' to give time for the prosecutor
10. proprium id Tiberio,
' it was a peculiarity of Tiberius.'
11. priscis uerbis. He had alluded to the old term senatus
co7isulturn ultimum : i.e. darent operam consiiles ne quid res publica