The annals of Tacitus

118 NOTES
xl 20 de Us, quorum Perseus Demetrium insimulasset sernwnum ;
and other parallels.
5. externa ad bella, i. e. the war with Antioolms, 191-188 b.c.
Their help in this war is mentioned several times by Livy.
6. In Italia, i.e. the Social war, 9 fl;;SZ . b.c. B. has an
interesting note :—' Among
the p reparaTIohs inade by Bome to
resist the Italians was the collecting of a fleet from cities in
Greec» g"fi Ai^'" Hinnr A . decree of the Senate of 7R B.n. is still
extant bestowing rewards on sea,-ca,pta.ins from Asia Minor for
services in thiswar.L
~Yl Wrforcio consule. Cato the censor became consul in
195 B .C.
""^l. grauissimo in discrimine, i.e. in the First Mithridatic
war, 84 B.C.
Ob asperitatem Memis, when Sulla had.goBems^_to_Asiajaiter
the battle of Orchomenus.
13. omnes qui adstabant . F. points out that ' Tacitus carries _
much further the usage, very rare before Layy, of in terposing, in_
the midst of oratiojjljliqua, a_parentheti cal or explanatory: rglaliive
clajise in the .indicative' The parenthetical clauses are found
chiefly with dum. The relative clauses are generally very brief ones.
15. Zmymaeos praetulere. N. mentions a coin of Smyrna
bearing a figure of Tiberius inside a temple, with the legend
Se/Sao-Tos Ti/3^/3tos, and on the reverse Se/Soo-Ti? (i.e. the mother of
Tiberius) and 'LvvKX-qros (Senate).
was.
16. M'. stands for Manio.
17. ea prouincia, i.e. the province of Asia, in which Smyrna
super numerum legaretur, ' a supernumerary legate should be
granted.'
19. deligere, ' to appoint ' a legatus.
per modestiam. In the best Latin modestia means ' law-
abidingriess,' 'good conduct'; in Tacitus sometimes 'modesty'
as here.
Valerius Naso would be sent out as praefectus fabritm or 'master
of works ' to Lepidus [R.].
e praetoriis, ' an ex-praetor.' Cf. c. 58 praeturafmwtus.