The annals of Tacitus

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3. Vibius Serenus. The father had been banished to the
island of Amorgus ob airocitatem morum (c. 13).
in senatum inducti siint. See Introduction vi.
4. inluuie ac squalore obsitus. Cf. vi 43 (where we have
inluuie obsitus again) and Livy xxix 16 obsiti squalore et
sordibus.
et turn, 'and now' in our idiom.
5. oranti filio comparatur, ' is matched with the oratory of
the son.' The metaj)hor is from matching pairs of gladiators.
6. multis munditiis, abl. of manner— ' with much elegance '
(of dress and manner), in strong antithesis to inluuie ac squalore.
Cf. iii 30 per cultum et munditias.
7. missos in Galliam concitores belli. Serenus the elder was
governor of Baetica about the time of Sacrovir's rebellion three
years previously.
these.'
8. adnectebat, used absolutely, so also in ii 26.
9. praetoriiun, ' an ex-praetor.'
10. taedio, abl. of cause.
14. ubi...ageret, 'where he might live far from fashions like
quandoque, 'sooner or later.' Cf. vi 20 et tu, Galba, quandoque
degustabis imjKrium.
16. falsa exterritum, 'that his alarm was groundless,' Greek
ovK ovra iKveirX-riynivov. P.F. quotes Cic. ad Alt. ix 2 ingrati
animi crimen horreo. Somewhat similar is arguitur pleraque
(vi 5). See Appendix.
17. si proderentur alii. ' Probably proderentur is ironical.
If the names of others were divulged, they would clear themselves
and "thus discredit the whole charge ' [F.].
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1. Cn. Lentulum. See c. 44.
Seium Tuberonem. See ii 20, where he is legatus under
Germanicus.
2. magno pudore, abl. of circumstiince.