The annals of Tacitus

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times for the Mausoleum, of which there are considerable remains
in the British Museum.
14. uiuo in saxo , from Virg. Aen. i 167.
fundamenta tempU, sc. fore. Concrete foundations would not
be required.
15. Pergamenos. Cf. c. 37.
80 ipso nitebantur, ' that was the very thing on which they
rested their claim.' But it told against them; for it was not
thought good to have temples to two Emperors in the same city.
Augnsto, ' in honour of Augustus.'
17. caerimonia occupauisse...uisi, 'were thought to have
engrossed the interests of their cities in the worship of Apollo and
Diana.' They had no interest to spare for a new temple.
19. Etruriae, i.e. of the old Etruscan league.
20. Tyrrhenum Lydumqiue. This account of the nrienta.1
origin of the Etruscans is found first in Herodotus i 94. It is
supported by some arfpimpnts philological and ethnoloRical, and
also by the remain pi
above.
Atye, abl. of Atys.
nf Etruscan art.
26. Pelope. Pelops is a Lydian in Pindar 01. i 37.
litteras imperatorum, ' documents given them by our generals.'
27. belle Macedonum, i.e. the war with Perseus mentione d
28. ubertatem fluminum, i.e. the Pactolus and the Hermus.
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1. Zmymaei, i.e. the envoys of Smyrna at Rome.
repetita,
'
' having retraced or ' recounted. '
2. illos should strictly be se,— ' had founded them (the people
of Smyrna).'
3. una Amazonum, named ' Smyrna,' according to the lep^Rnd .
condidisset. The subj. is oblique.
transcender e. historic infin .,— ' they passed on .'
ad ea quis fldebant. . .officiis, ' what
they most relied on, namely
their services ' [F.]. For this curious attraction N. quotes Cic.
ad Q. F. n % de Us, quae in Sestium apparabantur crimina ;
Livy