The annals of Tacitus

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ON CHAPTERS 36—38 99
ualidU3...spernendi3 honorlbus, ' strong in his cnntfimj
r honours.' C f. postulandis reis continuus (last chapter).
alioqui, ' besides/
coloniam mniore opuin specie coviplehat.
' generally.' Cf. Hist, iii 32 ditem alioqui
^ ' 6. in ambitionem flexisse, that he had vain-glorious leanings.'
7. constantiam . . . desideratam .
Jutflines^^
' thai. ma.ny "I'tjpjQf^ "^y, i]°""'
11. sibi atque urbi Romae. P.F. quotes from an inscription,
tioiitae et AiKjusto Caesari.
12. templum apud Pergamum. See c. 55.
13. qui...obseruem, 'I who keep as a law to myself....'
Strabo (vi 4) tells us that Tiberius made Augustus his standard
(Kavilif) of government.
14. placitum, ' thus approved.'
16. ut semel...habuerit, -17 'though
honour once may be excused.' Si^L;
19. s^T^ prnmiHcis iinlfra.t.iir ' it it_
criminate fl atteries.' For promi.scus see c. 16.
177^
This chapter gives us a very fine example of Latin Rhetoric.
'If this speech or anything like it was indeed delivered by
Tiberius, it must rank as one of the noblest and most dignified
utterances ever made by a great sovereign ' [R.].
2. offlcia fungi. Gt Hi 2 munia fungerentur. This construc-
tion is frequent in the comic poets. ' In these two places it is
perhaps preserved as an archaic purism of Tiberius ' [F.].
llllll 5. ut...credant , 'supposing that they believe.' Illli
6. oHensionunl...non pauidum, 'not teartul of animosities.'
Cf. Hist. V 14 nandi pauidus.
10. pro sepulcris spemuntur, i.e. have no more sanctity
than neglected tombs. They are not shrines of the immortal.
Cf. Ovid heroides iii 98 at mea pro nullo pondere uerba cadunt.
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12. intellepentem. .. juris . with clear vision of the rights oj Jjl
gods_andmen.' ~ ' "
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1». aninr , an archaism suitable to the language of prayer. (S^4feu»f ^ f/>»>quandoque
concessero, ' whenever I pass away.' - c^fiwfV
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