The annals of Tacitus

116 NOTES
5. uultu. ' There is some little ambiguity as to whose looks
are intemled ; most probably those of Agrippina. She could not be
induced to alter her gloomy aspect or change the style of her
conversation ' [P.F.]. There can be no doubt that uultu and
sermone are ablatives of respect.
6. aduertit, ' noticed.' Cf. vi 40 ut atrox aduertebatur.
7. quo acrius experiretur, ' to make a more searching ex-
periment.' 3o tUJ~ ifi-r V^^e^ tMjB^ueJLr,.
table.'
(itMi toi^oJUo*'^'
8. ut erant aaposita, ' as soon as mey had been put on the
10. tramisit, ' passed them on.'
coram, ' personally ' or ' openly ' addressed to her. Cf . vi 8
spectamus porro quae coram hahentur.
11. matrem, who was reclining on the other side of the
Emperor.
non mirum, sc. fore.
si quid seuerius...statuisset, ' if he took stronger jueasures.'
14. secretum, ' a secret method,'
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11. quo famam auerteret. ' to divert the gossip ' (mentioned at
the end of the last chapter). _, , ^ , /) aa. -«- -
i r - ;' /
P^'ri-diuersae,
tT {[.-*' — strength (of their claim).'
' with equal eagerness, but differmg m the
JL_I 7. Persi . The usual form of the gen. is Persei. The war
with Perseus was the Third Macedonian war, 171-168 fc c.
^riRt,niri pi._ This war lasted from loi' to 1^9 b.c He claimed
the Timgclom of Pergainus after the deatirof Attalus.
8. Hypaepeni, etc. The people of Hvpaepa lived in Lydia on
the southern slope of Tmolu s. Tralles is in Caria on a tributary
of the Maeander. The Laodicea here referred to was on the
Vigrderi^ of Phrygia^nd Caria , on the rjver^Lycu s. Magnesia is
probably the one on the Maeander. The Illenses were the people
of New Ilium, an Aetolian settlement at Hissarlik. Halicarnassus
(in Caria), destroyed by Alexander, was chiefly famous in later