The annals of Tacitus

110 NOTES
10. adpugnarent, a Tacitean word, used of a feint, as here.
11. clamore, talis, abl. of cause, with )ion acciperet [N.].
12. sue periculo, dat. depending on intentus.
16. munitionibus adiacerent, i.e. they were lying listlessly
along the ramparts, instead of standing on guard.
17. tanto infensius...incusatoantur, 'they were cut down
without mercy; the enemy taunting them with being renegades
and deserters, who had taken up arms for their own and their
country's enslavement ' [R.].
quanto, often used without a comparative in the second
member.
18. ferre... incusabantur. For the nom. and infin. cf. c. 22.
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2. si, ' ' if perchance,' hoping that,' et ttws. Cf. xv 13 propius
incedens si hostem in proelimn eliccrct.
3. castello . .
heights ... fortified posts.'
.
coniunctis tumulia praeaidia. ' fort... adjoining
5. opportune, ' in suitable places.'
muniebat, '
had begun to establish.'
fossam loricamque contexens. Notice the zeugma. Translate
' connecting these by a ditch and breast-work (or stockade).'
6. passuum. The Roman passns was two gradus, i.e. five
English feet.
ambitu, ' circuit.'
/^*"^'^*- 8. contraliere...circumdare, 'drawing his lines closer and
closer in' [R.]. uaUC ^ eUi^t^oA CtsJi/UJi/^ yitUtfi,>ed C;»jL-flj "
10. aeque auam. a Silver a^^ nnncfm^^f.^p^ " ccurs again in
ii 52. Cf. Suet. Claudiua 35 nihil aeque quam timidus ac diffidens
lir^beUatorumiiibellium. Drager takes this as an oxymoron.
It is surely better to explain it as asyndetan (with N.). Cf. the
previous sentence and eqni armenta (immediately following).
13. ut mos barbaris. Lanciani (quoted by R.) shows how in
early Italian towns, such as Antemnae, and the first settlement on
the Palatine, space was included inside the walls for the cattle,
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