The annals of Tacitus

ON CHAPTERS 34—36 97
aduertit, for animaduertit,— ' noticed,' ' Euriishsd.' Cf. ii 32
more prisco aduertere.
3. dicpta^ in its ordinary sense of ' ' jokes,' sa.t.ire'
solutum, ' free from punishment. '
f|4. prodere, ' tn speak freely .' I/ -7».
5. num enlm. . .incendci'
am I, forsooth, in arms with Cassius
and Brutus on the plains of Philippi, orjinfiaming the people to in,
civil war by my harangues?' [R-f^^fi^^^l^^
6. nht,inflnt.i|^^^R. This verb is "here ftised in its strictly qV^, I
classical sense of ' hold. '
7. an illi quidem...perempti. We must begin the translation
of this sentence thus :
' is it not the case that, though slain more
than seventy years ago...?' Cf. Cic. de leg. ii 2 nmnquid duas
hahetis /)«(ru/s, an est una ilia patria communis?
8. septuagensimum, round number for sixty-sixth .
9. noscuntur, ' are recognised,'—a Virgilian use.
ne uictor quidem aboleiiit. A bronze statue of Brntns a t
Milan was preserved by order of Augustu s.
12^ nee deerunt qui..., a irequetir lorm of expression in
Tacitus.
' l1 ingruit , presses on me.' ' hangs before me. lJ
16. occultati, 'concealed for a time and then published.'
This was done by his daughter Marcia , as Seneca tells us in th e
Consolatio ad Marciam .
19. punitis ingeniis gliscit auctoritas, ' the punishment of
genius heightens its influence.' Cf. c. 5.
36 *,
^p^ifitJb*-x^. postulandis reis continuus, lit. 'unbroken in prosecu-
tions,'—abl. of respect. Cf. xi .5 continuus et saeuus accusandis reis.
praefectum urbis. an honorary office ( merely a survival ) held
during the abSfiTTCg of th"? tiUll^la^j^lie Liillll FtjyilVal . H
had no connexTTT^^^ M^JlJ^y^ Hp^fef^tnrp nf tim Tity p tjta.hljshed
3. aUSpiCandi. It ^R ne"Ql fr>r « tno^iafrofa r.n ihn fi rof
day^f office to discharge some function of the post he h eld by
E. T.