The annals of Tacitus

1. medlt3t.n, passive.
(I stooping and very slender.'
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ON CHAPTERS 56, 57 119
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2. Caesar in Campaniam may possibly be right. N. quotes
xiv 8 anxia Agrippina, quod nemo a filio ; Livy xli 3 turn demum
nuntius ad tertiam legionem reiiocandam ; and other passages.
But his examples are mostly from rapid, vigorous narratives. So
perhaps Halm and others are right in introducing abscessit or some
other verb of motion here.
3. apud Nolam, on the site of the house where Augustus died.
4. certus...degere, a poetical construction. Cf. Virg. Aen.
iv 564 certa mori.
causam...rettuli. Cf. vi 49 causa ad matrem referebatur.
7. sex...coniunxit, 'he spent the next six years (31-37 a. d.)
in similar seclusion.' Tacitus is fond of coniungo in this sense.
plerumque, ' often. 'y ^f^.c. ^^M^ jL- .U^^>Asz4£sw'^
permoueor num. ' I iUii dU>RTO^°T)y aouots wnetner....'
N. quotes an exactly similar use of perturhor from Caes. B. G. iv 14.
The words which follow are well rendered by C. and B. :—' whether
i tis not more truly to be ascribed_to himself, andh is wish to hide
by the place of his retreat the cruelty and licentiousness ^Yllich h^
betrayect by his actiops,'
rrr praegracUls . . proceritas ,
.
' his figure, though tall, was
fiu«oj»V
15. medicaminibus interstincta. ' patched here and there with
plastgrs^ Cf. Suet. Tib. 68 facie honcsta, in qua tamen crebri et
subiti tumores. K. points out that ' the well-known statue of
Tiberius in the Vatican has every mark of personal beauty and
dignity about it ; and it would appear to have been a faithful
likeness. But there is an unmistakeable look of evil temper in
the bust of Tiberius in the British Museum.'
' 15. inpotentia . headstrong tempe r. ' Cf. Veil. ii. 11 Marius
immodicus gloriae, insattabilis , tmpote)\L
18. dubitauera^. ' had thought about ' [F.]. N. quotes Cic.
ad Att. xii 49 cum duhitet Curtius cons ulatum petere.
21. Tiberio...ad^£ijyt, ' he adopted Tiberius himself, and made
Tiberius adopt Gei-manicns .'