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The annals of Tacitus

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122 NOTES<br />

8. insistentibus .<br />

' would stand their ground ' [C. and B.].<br />

So also F., who takes the word in contrast to uitare and auerti,<br />

i.e. ' they scornfully called his attention to the behaviour <strong>of</strong> his<br />

friends.'<br />

ridens .<br />

9. enimuero, '<br />

indeed.'<br />

10. toruus, ' would look grimly on ' [R.].<br />

falsum renidens. Horace has dulce ridentem and perjidum<br />

seu loqueretur seu taceret. <strong>The</strong> subj. <strong>of</strong> frequency, not un -l/ /<br />

rimm on in Tmvv occurs <strong>of</strong>ten in Silver Latin. •' f<br />

12. uxor, i.e. Julia, daughter <strong>of</strong> Drusus and Livia.<br />

/15. traxit in parte s. ' drew to his sid e.' Cf. xiii 2 habebat<br />

in partibus Pallantem.<br />

' 16. atrox. . .ingenium , savage temper .'<br />

17. solita fratribus odia, a favourite thought with <strong>Tacitus</strong>.<br />

Cf. xiii 17 antiquas fratrum discordias ;<br />

19. proniDtior. ' more<br />

xv 2 uetera fratrum odia.<br />

inclined to.' ^ t/i/uJiMx^ \^J^-rflA<br />

neque tamen...meditaretur. <strong>The</strong> meaning is welf brought out \\<br />

tby R.— ' vet even in encouraging Drusus. Seianus plotted how to I /<br />

I 21. praeferocem,<br />

' very impetuo us.'<br />

I 22. opportunum, ' exposed to .'<br />

Qhoxa w.

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