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132 NOTES 72 1. eodem anno Frisii. Bury's paraphrase ( Student'.^ Roman Eiiqnre, T^. 185) is a good commentary on this chapter:— ' Against a revolt of tributaries on the northei-n boundary of the Empire, the arms of Eome were not so successful. The Frisians, who had been subdued by Drusus in 12 b.c, had for forty years paid the tribute which he had imposed on them. This tribute consisted in ox-hides, which were required for military purposes ; and the officers who levied it never examined too curiously the size or thickness of the skins, until in 28 a.d. Olennius, a primipilar centurion, who was appointed to exact the tribute, chose the hides of wild bulls as the standard. As the domestic cattle of the Germans were of small size, the Frisians found the innova- tion hard. In order to meet the demands of Olennius, they were forced to give up, first their capital, then their lands, finally to surrender their wives and children as pledges. As their complaints led to no redress, they rose in revolt. The soldiers, who were collecting the tribute, were impaled on gibbets ; and Olennius himself was obliged to escape to the fortress of Flevum— probably in the island of the same name, now Vlieland, near the Texel which was a Roman coastguard station.' Frisii, occupying the low lands between the mouth of the Bhine and thfijms, s urroun din g the Znyd ^r 7,ao. 2. pacem exuere, a very frequent metaphor in Tacitus. Cf. iii 12 ohscquium exuit. nostra auaritia, causal abl. 3. tributum iis iusserat...ut penderent. For the construction N. quotes xiii 15 Britannico iussit exsurgeret; xiii 40 qidhiis iiisserat ut..:re!
ON CHAPTERS 72, 73 133 revolt the Frisii leiiiiiincd indepemlerit until overcome by Coibulo in 47 A.D. 7. terga , ' -t|itles .' terijora is more usual in this sense. But cf. XV 44 ; Virg. Aen. i 368 taurino circumdare tcrgo ; Ovid Met. xii 97 terfia nouena houm. urorum . Cf. Caes. B.G. vi 28 hi (uri) Kunt viaanitudine imulo infra elepluuiton, impede et colore et figura tauri. magiui uix eorum est et magna Helocitax...hos utiidiose foueiti eaptos interficiunt. They were probably the aurochs , the wild oxen of Germany now extinct J B.]. Cf. Pliny jY. H. viii 15 excellenti ui et uelocitate uros. F. compares the Italian buffaloes of Virg. Georg. ii 374 ; iii 532. 10. beluaruin feraces jsaltus. modica domi armenta, a good instance of parataxis. The antithesis would have been brought out in Greek by /ieV and 5e. Translate : ' for though their forests abound in wild animals of great size , their domestic cattle are smalL ' 13. semitio. Cf. Livy viii 28 nt pecuniae creditae bona creditoris, non corpus ohtwxium esset...ita next soluti. He is refeiTing to the lex Poetelia of 326 b.c. 15. tribute, dat. of purpose, not depending on aderat. F. compares xii 69 cohortem quae exeuhiis adett. tion.' 16. mfensos...praeuenit. We say, ' escaped their indigna - 18. litora Oceani praesidebat, sense construction,— ' was protecting the northern sea-board ' [R.]. Cf . iii 39 ; xii 14. 73 2. pro praetore, i.e. legato Aunusti uro nraetore . uezilla, ' detachments 1 [F.]. R. says 'veteran detachments,' i.e. \ieterani sub uexillo (i 17) ; so also Bury. But, as P.F. points out on i 17, ' all uexilla were not uexilla ueteraiwrum. The word uexilla denotes bodies of troops, detached from their own legions, and serving apart when occasion required. See Caes. B.G. vi 36. Cf. such phrases as uexillum tironum (Ann. ii 78); uexillum delectoruni (xv 26) ; uexilluni equitum (Hist, ii 11). If Tacitus
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NOTES ABBREVIATIONS 'i^. = Nipperde
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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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ON CHAPTERS 6-8 65 13. precandam...
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ON CHAPTERS 8—11 67 9. eo audacia
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