The annals of Tacitus

114 NOTES
9. quo initio inuidiae, sociative abl..— ' with this as the text
of her bitter attack. ' Cf. i 16 eo principio lasciuire miles. For this
sense of inuidia cf . iii 67 inuidiam et preces miscuerat.
12. imaginem, ' representative.'
13. intellegere discrimen, suscipere sordes, ' saw that the
danger was her own, took to herself the suppliant's garb ' [F.]
' accepted her humiliation' [P.F.].
14. jiraescribi. ' is offered as a pretext.' Cf . Hist, iii 13 prae-
scriptum Vesj)asia7vi nomen.
' 15. stulte prorsus , all too foolishly .'
16. ad cultum delegerit, ' chose as the obiect of her worship .'
oblita Sosiae. Cf. c. 19.
17. audita haec.elicuere, ' these words had the rare effect of
drawing a retort from that close-locked breast' [K.].
' 18. correptam . interrupted.' ~*^v±Jl£M.
Graeco uersu, ' by a Greek quotation,' thus given by Suetonius
Tib. 53, si non dominaris, filiola, iniuriam te accipere existimas.
20. Afer primoribus...additus. Cf. Quintilian x 1 118 eorum
quos uiderim Domitius Afer et luliusAfricanus longe praestantissimi.
arte ille et toto genere dicendi praeferendus, et quern in numero
xieterum locare non timeas.
21. adseueratione...qua...appellauit. Cf. Hist, iii 39 audita
est Vitellii vox, qua iactauit.
suo lure disertum, 'an orator in his own right.' 'His claim
to eloquence was beyond cavil ; he had as much right to it as a
man has to his own estate, as it were ' [P.F.]. So Cicero
(Archias 18) appears to quote Ennius as calling poets iure suo
sancti [F.].
23. prosperiore fama fuit, abl. of description.
24. nisi quod...dempsit, a Ciceronian use. It is found in
several other passages in Tacitus.
25. dum fessa aetate...inpatientiam, very well rendered by
K — . 'for , Thangh his'"powers failed him, he was unable to resign
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himself to sitBTicgr^ yuintihari (xii 12 3) describes how he now
saw Afer asa very old man aliquid ex ea quam meruerat auctoritate.
He had once been undisputed princeps fori 'Leader of the Bar.'
Now people said malle eum deficere quam desinere.
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