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The annals of Tacitus

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CHAPTERS 17—33: EVENTS OF 24 A.D.<br />

17. Cornelio Cethego Visellio Varrone consulibus<br />

pontifices eorumque exemplo ceteri sacerdotes,<br />

cum pro incolumitate principis uota susciperent,<br />

Neronemquoqiie et Drusum isdem dis commendauere,<br />

non tam caritate iuueiium quam adulatione, quae 5<br />

moribus corruptis perinde anceps, si nulla et ubi<br />

nimia est. nam Tiberius baud umquam domui<br />

Grermanici mitis, turn uero aequari adulescentes<br />

senectae suae inpatienter indoluit ; accitosque ponti-<br />

fices percontatus est num id precibus x^grippinae lo<br />

aut minis tribuissent. et illi quidem, quamquam<br />

abnuerent, modice perstrictij etenim pars magna<br />

e propinquis ipsius aut primores ciuitatis erant.<br />

ceterum in senatu oratione monuit in posterum, ne<br />

quis mobiles adulescentium animos praematuris 15<br />

lionoribus ad superbiam extolleret. instabat quippe<br />

Seianus incusabatque diductam ciuitatem ut ciuili<br />

bello ; esse qui se partium Agrippinae uocent, ac, ni<br />

resistatur, fore plures; neque aliud gliscentis dis-<br />

cordiae remedium quam si unus alterue maxime 20<br />

prompti subuerterentur.

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