The annals of Tacitus

ON CHAPTERS 62—65 125
9. ignotos...ultro accitos, 'even inviting applications from
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pei-Bons'unknown to himself.' ifc^-^J^^ s^ls^QgQ^
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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.'
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17. f.apriTTirmiam. '
sanctify .'
loco, dat. of possessor.
18. ostenderint. See note on c. 58.
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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 _ri^i/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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