The annals of Tacitus

ON CHAPTERS 23—25 85
8. primo sui incessu. sui (for suo) is emphatic,— ' when he
advanced in person.' Cf. ii 13 fruitiir faina sui.
9. soluit obsidium. We say ' raised the siege.'
locorum opportuna permuniuit. Cf. Kitchener's 'blockhouses'
in the last stage of the South African war.
12. non graui nee uno incursu, ' with a single attack in
heavy marching order.'
14. cum popularibus, ' and his people.'
15. agmina, 'columns.'
16. ipse consultor aderat omnibus, '
operations as a whole' [E.].
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he himself directed the
3. positis mapalibus. Cf. iii 74 itiutantem mapalia Tacfarinatem.
These moveable huts are mentioned by Livy xxix 31 cum
mapalibus pecoribiisque suis persecuti sunt regem.
4. saltibus, ' forests.
'
5. expeditae cohortes alaeque, ' infantry and cavalry of the
allies in light order.'
6. simulq[ue...et. Ci. i Q5 simul haec, et scindit agmen.
8. aderant in barbaros, just as we say vividly ' they were
upon them.'
praepeditis, ' hobbled.' The equivalent Greek word is Treiro-
dicrnivos.
9. diuersos,
' far off.'
ab Romanis, 'on the Roman side.' Cf. the phrases a tergo,
a front e.
10. dispositae turmae, ' their cavalry were posted at proper
intervals '
[R.].
12. consilium, ' plan of battle.'
13. trahi, occidi, capi, i.e. those who were dragged away were
slain or made prisoners [F.].
infensus, 'infuriated.'
14. et aduersum eludentes...pugnae depends on 7nemoria.
Translate :
' and of battle so often longed for against an enemy
foiling them.' For the absolute use of eludere cf. iii 74.