The annals of Tacitus

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which were driven in from their pastures at night. Each family
was provided with an apelltis and a sheepfold.
16. contactu, ' contagion.' Cf. vi 7 infecti quad ualetudine
et contactu.
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1. rebusque turbatis...discordia, ' and to their troublous state
was added the crowning misery of dissension .' diacordia is of
course nominative.
3. et erant qm...suaderent. The meaning is well brought
out by K. :
' others again proposed that they should make a dash
for it and sell their lives dearly.' _
4. neque ignobiles...seiitentiis, 'it was not the common herd,
only who dissented from these views.
' it was not the common herd ,^^ ,/
5. his sententiis, the two opinions insiield ITOd by the party
of resist-
ance [F.].
6. uim atque clementiam...edoctus. Cf. Livy vi 32 Latinae
legiones longa societate militiam Romanam edoctae ; and see
Roby 1122.
////8. dissej^gjjigj. ' maiutaigjedjj^t....' IJ 11
10. a.st.a.-l ;^ ^ yt, sfiYii \ p|ific^]1i. neatly rendered by 0. a.nd R .
Jl- whom t ge or sex unfitted for wmi- 'l/
^
'TT. utnque aestmatum...occidere . In English we should
h s&\: ' both had determined n^f, tn ()ut, live tlieii freeflom.' //
13. properum finem...clainitaiis. The sentence is designedly
exclamatory, to express the agitation of the speaker; and, as F.
says, the sense of such a verb as suadens can easily be supplied from
the gerundive and clqmitam. E.'s translation is very vigorous:
' Tar sa' wished formlSB snorl fwo*t ol 1 1 , a.nd, cryiagjauJLthat they
should have done with hope .and__feaji-aIikai^showed the waj by
plunging a sword into his own brea st.'
16. oppeterent. The use of this verb without mortem is
Virgilian.
17. flnnatae stationes...globis, 'he strengthened his outposts
with denser masses of men.'
' 18. ingruebat nox. . .atrox , night was tailing with ugly storm-
clouds.'