The annals of Tacitus

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triremes, from the Eavenna Fleet (see c. 5), told off to protect
trade in the Adriatic.
adpulere, 'put into harbour,' i.e. at Brundisium. Cf. ii 24
triremis terrain adpitlit.
. 8. ad usus commeantium, ' for the requirements of traders.'
V 9. quaestor. Vvnp-| oariy ti»np p there appear to have been
four quaestors witli spheres of duty ( vrouinciae) in Italy, chiefly
noncerne fl with t.iarlp. Oiip. nf t.bnsp bail t,))p v rouincia Ostiensj s
charged with important duties with regard to i,he corn-supglj .
Ashby in Recent Discoverict; at Ostia, J. R. S. vol. ii, p. 155,
writes :— ' It seems probable, as Va^lieri and Carcopino h ave
conjectm^d independently, -that the foundation—of- Qatia_J3ii its
present site may be connected with the institution of the four
a uaestores classix i in 267 t^.t and the assignment of one of them
to-Qstias-'
Another had the nroitincia Gallica (i.e. Cisalpine Gau l). A^
th ird was stationed '" Smith Italy ; but we do not know the name
of bis prouinc.ia . Lipsius would read Calex euenerat he re, jjid
thinks that this is the r amp "f this j^mnhipg. More probably
Brundisium was the station of this quaestor : and, i f calles ia the-
right reading, Bamsay thinks he mav have had charge of ' the
rough pasture-land of the interior as well. Suetonius (lulius 19)
speaks of prouinciae minimi negotii, hoc est siluae callesquc. But
this passage has no reference to the prouinciae of the quaestors.
10. classiariorum, 'marines,' i.e. from the biremes.
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11. coeptantem cum maxlme, 'at the very beginning,' 'just
as it was breaking out.' Cf. iii 59 lacus cum maxime peragrantem
' traversing at the very time.' The full expression would be
7iunc ut cum maxime [F.]. We have imnc cum maxime 'at this
moment' in Cicero and Livy, and turn cum maxime 'at that
moment' in Livy. See Roby 1641.
13. tribunus, i.e. an officer of the praetorian guard.
15. familiarum, 'households,' often, as here, in the sense of
' slave establishments.' Cf. iii ^S familiaruvi numerum et nationes.
gliscebat immensum, ' was increasing enormously.' Cf.c. 5.
For the adverbial immensum (really a cognate ace.) cf. iii 30 domus
ilia immensum uiguit.