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The annals of Tacitus

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136 NOTES<br />

words. Merivale, in his paraphrase, takes male alacres as ' de-<br />

jected,' i.e. he gives male its negative force (Roby 2234). But this<br />

cannot be. P. F. has a good note, comparing Ovid Ars Am. iii 699<br />

coningis ad timidas aliquis male sedulus aures<br />

auditos nemoru detulit ore sonos.<br />

75<br />

1. Agrippinam Germanico ortam. See Introduction iv.<br />

2. coram, ' in person ' (i.e. in Campania). Cf . c. 54.<br />

911 Domitio. This was Qnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbu s. consul<br />

^^_\A). According to Suet. Nero 5, he was 07nni parte uitae d.e -<br />

Iffttnhilin . H<br />

e died during Nero's infancy .<br />

tradidisset, ' had betrothed. '<br />

6. auunculum, ' ^eat-ungl^ ' here and in several other places<br />

p<br />

in <strong>Tacitus</strong>, ii 44, 53, iv 3, xii 64 ; just as amita is used for great-<br />

aunt in ii 27 [P.F.].<br />

praeferebat, ' he could show ' or ' boast .' N. quotes xiv 53<br />

nobiles et longa decora praeferentes ; xvi 32 aiictoritatem Stoicae<br />

sectae praeferebat.<br />

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