The annals of Tacitus

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castra quibti.t uetcruin rwmen cat. The name is preserved in the
modern Sperlonga.
mare Amunclanum. ' the bay of Amjclag ' between Caieta and
Terracina. This place was deserted in Pliny's time.
of Fundi, ' now Fondi.
Fundanos, '
9. genu...suspensus, i.e. protecting Tiberius with his body,
on his hands and knees, and with his face to his [F.].
10. habitu,
' attitude.
12. quamquam.suaderet. See c. 4.
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non sui anxius. Cf. ii 75, where we have the same expression.
It is gen. of object.
13. adsimulabat... partes, 'he assumed a judicial attitude.'
F. compares xv 65 upeciem iudicis induere.
16. modesta, here in its correct sense of ' well-behaved.'
17. plerumqu e, ' often ' (evidently here).
in praesentia, 'at the present juncture.' See Appendix.
19. apiscendae potentiae properis. ' huriTing to obtain power.
The gen, is on the analogy of that after words of desiring;. Cf.
xiv 7 properus uindictae ;
xii 66 oblatae occasionis propera.
erectum...ostenderet. The omission of se is awkward, but not
impossible in Tacitus. Cf. ii 71.
20. animi, 'in mind,' —a true locative. Cf. Virg. Aen. ii 61
fidens animi.
21. neque ausurum contra, ' Sejanus would not venture to
move a hand against him.' For this use of audeo (absolute) with
adverb N. quotes Hist, ii 25 unde rursus ausi ; v 11 longius ausuri.
22. qui nunc patientiam,..insultet, ' though he could now
play alike on the long-suffering of the old man and the supinenes s
of the young one '
fB.1.
1. . audienti, i.e. Neroni.
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' ninil •^. coptationis . no treasonable designs. '
4. exceptas auctasque. ' caught up and exaggerated .' excipio
is frequent in the sense of ' catch,' e.g. Horace's excipere aprum.
' 5. diuersae . . . formae , various types of annoyance .'
' 7. plerique , many' (again).
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