The annals of Tacitus

102 NOTES
9. esse illi...consiIia, 'Livia bad a mother and grand-
mother—Antonia and Augusta—more intimate counsellors than
himself.
10. consilia, res }yro persona. Cf . c. 6 seridtia.
simplicius acturum, ' he would use greater frankness . First
then, there was the hostility ol Agnppma to be considered. The
marriage of Livia would but add fresh fuel to that hostility ; it
would, so to say, rend in two the family of the Caesars.'
13. s^ic auoaue. ' even as it was .'
15. conuelli. ' were being torn asund er.'
quid si...coiiiugio, ' what would happen if the rivalry were
aggravated bv the proposed marriage?' For this sense of inten-
datur see c. 2.
16. falleris enim. Tacitus likes the sudden change into
or. recta.
17. in eodem ordine, i.e. the Order of Knights.
jl 19. ego ut sinam ,
' though I were to permit it.. ..' \
20. fratrem ..patrem...ill{ll6if6!5, Hi. IjermaniCUS', the elder
Drusus, and the Claudii and Drusi of old days.
21. quidem...sed, /LC€»'...5^. Translate: ' though.. .yet....'
22. sistere, poetical for stare.
23. t.p iniiitiiTn pftrrutnmin^. ' break in upon you against your , . ,
will.' Cf. c. 67 quietem inrumpr.re.' iJ^^'-ds. ^^o- 1*- gft^>^ f^ uOJU^ J il
24. excessisse...iioii occulti ferunt , 'openly allege that you
have long ago soared above a knight's position.'
25. fastigium . often used of imperial power, a metaph or
f| rived from the meaning of 'gable-end '
' pediment. '"
familia snnwium ad fastigium genita.
Cf. xiii 17
patris mei amicitias, alluding to Augustus' friends of eques -
trian rank, Maecenas, Prociileius, etc.
26. per inuidiam tui, ' out of ill-will to you.'
27. at enim, dXXa vij Aia, anticipating an objection. See
e. 39 Augustum de equitibus Romanis consultauisse.
29. immensum. See c. 27.
31. C. Proculeium. See Horace Odes ii 2 uiuet extento
Proculeius aeuo nottcs in fratres animi paterni.
' quosdam, i.e. others.'