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I 124 NOTES I ' wtô 25. nequedum . . quos . , ' •£4- ' and as it bad not, been discovered I uis, of fire. Cf. c. 64 xiim tgnium. ' latior , more widespread, ' —used again of fear in xii 43 dum latius metuitur; Hist, iv 33 latiorem terrorem faciunt. 63 1. obruta, ' the ruins ' or ' debris.' 3. si confusior facias... fecerat, 'if, in spite of a face which baffled recognition, likeness of shape or age had deceived those who sought to identify them ' [F.]. . 4. quinquaginta milia, an absurd exaggeration [R.]. 1 1 5. dfljililata-' OJI^m^^' Cf. xiii 14 debilis Burrus ' crippled Burrus ' ; Cic. j)ro Flacco 72 membra quae dehilitauit lapidibus fuatibiis ferro. / 7. gladiatorium munus ederet, ' should give a gladiatorial I ' show. cui minor.. .re s. ' vyhose means fell below 400.000 sesterces. ' i.e. the equestrian rating. For the syntax cf. Suet. Aug. 38 maiores Iannorum I quinque et triginta. 9. solo flrmitatis spectatae , ' gnlidit.y.' ' on a foundation of approved ' 10. sub recentem cladem , just after the recentdisaster.' See Eoby 2129. 3. feralem . . absentiae . 64 ' men began to sav it was an ill- starred year, and that the Emperor's design of leaving Rome had been entered on against the auspices. ' ferebant. . .ni obuiam isset. Cf. c. 9 and Eoby 1574. 5. fortuita ad culpam trahentes, ' interpreting misfortune as • ,-, guilt,'— a frequent use of traJio in Tacitus. tFt^ Ui
ON CHAPTERS 62—65 125 9. ignotos...ultro accitos, 'even inviting applications from " pei-Bons'unknown to himself.' ifc^-^J^^ s^ls^QgQ^ CL^cfi^ 1**^ 10. sententiae, i.e. decrees of the senate. "" '~ -' 11. Augustus, Mount Augustus. But there is no evidence to show that the proposed name was used. 14. Claudiae Quintae. In 204 b.c. the ship cotiveYiiig_tbe image of pybeje from Pln-ygia ranTgi-ound in the Tiber . Claudia proved her high c"haracter by hilUllTlff It 6rt ; and iier statue'wa's set up in the terapleoniie Mother of the Gods . uim igiiium...elapsatii. Tacitus has the accus . after elaho;r again in i 61 ; after erumpo in xii 63 ; after exeo in vi 49. Cf Virgil's erumpere nubem. See Roby 1121. ^ V^ZfcX" 16. acceptos, ' acceptable.' u^î^-^J*-^^^^^ «i— ^^^^ 17. f.apriTTirmiam. ' sanctify .' loco, dat. of possessor. 18. ostenderint. See note on c. 58. 1 . 65 haud fuerit absurdum. ' it will not be out of place. ' The perf. subj. is often used by Tac i tu s , a? Wm i m, i[ i _riî/t?T.ions nf possibility. Cf. c. 3 neque alia ahnueri t ; c. 32 nemo contenderit. 2. Querquetulanum, ' Oak hill.' cognomento, a synonym for nomine ; so also uocabulo (line 9). 8. talis siluae frequens fecundusque. This construction of frerjf/pjus (found naffiiLfiifi-filse) is assimilated to that of fecundus. 4. appellitatum. See note on c. 41. ^^ Caele Vibenna. The account here followed agrees with that given in the speech of the Emperor Claudius on the Adlection of Gallic Senators (see E. G. Hardy in Journal of Philology, vol. xxxii, p. 79):— 'According to Tuscan writers, Servius Tullius was once the loyal and devoted retainer of Caelius Vivenna, whose every fortune he shared, and when by changing fortune he was driven to leave Etruria with all that was left of the army of Caelius, he occupied the Caelian Mount, giving it this name fi'om his leader Caelius, and changing his own name from the Tuscan form Mastama, assumed that by which we know him.' 8. magnas eas copias, i.e. of Etruscans. 9. TuBCuni uicum , extending from the Forum to the Velabrum. .
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ON CHAPTERS 1, 2 57 19. summa apisc
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ON CHAPTERS 2—4 59 construction c
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ON CHAPTERS 4, 5 61 and Virg. Georg
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