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94 NOTES nothing else than a monarchy,'—though it was not so in form. Formally things went on tamquam iietere re imhlica (i 7),—the names of the old magistrates being preserved. Cf. c. 20 quasi Varro consul aut illiid res inihlica esset. 10. haec conquiri tradique, referring to the first words of c. 32. He attaches the chief importance to insignificant doings of Emperor and Senate, especially the record of prosecutions. He cares nothing for the grand operations of imperial government. in rem fuerit, ' may prove useful.' Cf. c. 5 incertum fuerit c. 32 7ion sine iisu fuerit. 11. prudentia, 'by their own wisdom.' 13. aliorum euentis docentur. euenta means 'experiences.' Cicero has euenta nostra in ad /am. i 7. ' The idea seems to be that it is the business of the historian to select proper instances as examples or as warnings. ...He has so to marshal his facts that his readers may draw the proper conclusions from them ' [R.]. ceteruin...adferunt, 'however, such enquiries, although sure to be profitable, yet bring very little entertainment.' This is the force of ut...ita....For the thought cf. Thuc. i 22 Kal is /x^v CLKpdacnv laws to /xij /xvdwdes avrCiv aTepTriarepov (pavelrai. 14. uarietates, ' vicissitudes.' 15. exitus, ' deaths,' as often in Tacitus. 16. continuas accusationes, ' an unbroken record of prosecutions.' 18. coniungimus, ' we string together.' easdem exitu.-.satletate. ' \.r\^.]^ {^,11 endinp in one wav. with a. uniformity as monotonous «« it, i>^ rpvnlHng' [R.]. 22. TIberio regente. rego is rarely used of an Emperor. 23. ut, 'though.' Cf. c. 40. of others is aimfiiL-aJL_the.mgfilyes.' 26. ut niinis...arguens, 'as criticising from too close a point of view the opposite qualities ' [F.]. ' How admirable is Tacitus when he sums up in a perfect phrase some paipful human characteristic!' rR.L 6>
ON CHAPTERS 33, 34 95 34 2. postulatur. Cf. c. 30 maiestatif! jMstulatus. tunc primvun, ' now for the first time.' Aftervvartls nnmit.in.n pncniiriiyf.il similii.v pn.scp.ntinnp 3. editis annalibus. As Seneca tells us, Cordus wrote the history of liis own time only, — was limited to the reign of Augustus. unius saeculi facta. Probably it 4 Romanorum ultimum. No doubt Cordus would have quoted the words of Brutus himself on the death of Cassius. ,^ G. id perniciabile et Caesar., apninifins ' t jiis wjts fatal to the *{:*±tS4- acfiused, as well as the fact that the Emperor listened to the ^^ojeA — "aJ.* defence with a forbidding look. ' _ For the construction cf. c. 12, 26, 44. 7. EelinaueH ij^fff uitafi mj^rtus. ' resolve^^gdi|/ Cf. xii 66 sceleris olim certa ; Virg. Aen. iv 54 lam certus eimdl. Contrast c. 57 certus procul urhe dcgere. 14. eloquentiae ac fitlel pra.Rc1a.ru^ . fides means ' candour,' ' imuartiality .' Seiieca caXlsJjivy c(tndidissimtis omnium niagnoru7)i ingenioruiit aestiinator. For the genitive construction cf. c. 21.H^'^ti-}( 'w^'*^ 16. Pompeianum. Cf. i 10 Pompeianae partes and contrasr^"^*"^**- i 2 luUaiiae partes. Pompeianiis denotes a cl^{i.mpin7-[ of t.\^ e- legitimate republi c, and an enemv of imperialism. 17. Scipionem . Hr; is re fprrinf t o Metellus Sciuio . father- in-law of Fompev and his colleague as contJUl 111 BTb.c. * rS! Airanium^ consul in 6 b.c. ana Jej /atus of Pompey in Snain^ ** 19. parricidas. Cf. Val. Max. vi 4, 5 M. Brutus suarum prius ttirtutum quam patriae parentis parricida. 20. ut insignes uiros, ' as one would speak of distinguished men.' ftnnii ^"lllnnlr miriplin i.e. his history in ] 7 h ooks begini^yirr •aiiji ^ B.C., a. 11n(let1, to h^f fjr]ra,QQ^vtotum ciF'Metello coiisyTp j^n^^u^HOdes ii 1). Cf. also Virg. Kcl. ni 84. 2?r" Messalla Coruinus , thp nvnto^ wrote tlie history of t.h p wars after the deatt^! Julius (Jaesaj^ Ije fought under l^rutiis at Philippi.
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THE ANNALS OF TACITUS: CHAPTERS 1
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