The annals of Tacitus

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orationis, ut uitium ficret. itaque diuus Augustiis optivie dixit:
Hateritis Jioster sufflamuiandus eat, 'requires the brake.'
7. Haterii...extinctum est. ' the sonorous and fluent stvle o f I
Haterius perished with him .' —borrowed from Cic. de or. iii 28
projiuens quiddam hahuit Carbo et canorum.
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I. M. Licinlo L. Calpurnio. They were M. Licinius Crassus
and L. Calpurnius Piso.
3. initium. . .exstitit, ' it began and ended in a moment [F.].
coepto...amphitlieatro, dative depending on subdidit below.
4. Fidenam. The singular is found in Virg. Aeti. vi 773 and
a few other passages.
6. per solidum . 'on firm a'oundj '— -modal iise of per., Cf. c. 54.
8. abundaiitia...ambitione, ablatives of manner.
mui^icipali ambitione, ' to gain favour with his fellow-towns- ^/ J I
men.' '-'' '--^ "^-^ -Kay- -ulp^^ j^^-U^ k^U~ie>^^ I / |
II. procul uoluptatibus habiti. ' Tiberius hated games of
all kinds ; so did Cicero, who speaks of the necessity of having to
attend such shows, for popularity's sake, as one of the greatest
bores of life ' [R.].
uirlle ac muliebre secus, adverbial accus. of description .
Cf. Hist. V 13; Livy xxvi 47 liberorum capitum uirile secus ad
decern millia capta. See Eoby 1104.
12. Ob propinqnitatem, five miles from Rome, now Castel
Giubilep.
' n^J-3. grauior pestis fuit, ' the calamity was all the more
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' conferta mole. when the huge building was packed.'
conuulsa, 'collapsed.'
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14. in exteriora effundltur. ' bulges outwards. '
16. praeceps, adverbial. Cf. viT? famam praeceps dabat.
But in praeceps is more common.
18. ut tall sorte, ' considering the terrible circumstances.!
Cf. Tacitus Germ. 30 iiiultum, ut inter Germanos, rationis.
21. noscebant, ' were recognising.
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