The annals of Tacitus

60 NOTES
the vacancies by fresh levies. Vokinteers, he said, were not
sufiQciently numerous, and any who came forward were not of
the same quality and readiness to obey, being generally men
without money or settled home.'
11. dilectibus, i.e. among provincials who were Roman
citizens.
uoluntarium. Voluntary enlistment was generally sufiScient,
especially as the area of Roman citizenship was being continually
extended.
17. quanto sit angustius imperitatum, ' how much narrower
than now were the bounds of the empire.' Tacitus is compliment-
ing Trajan, who by his campaigns from 114 a.d. had enlarged the
boundaries of the Boman empire. He made Dacia a Roman
province ; and in the East pushed forward the limits of the
empire to the Mare Rubrum [P.F.].
1. utroque marl, i.e. mare snperum and inferum.
2. Misenum apud at Rauennam. For the position of the
prep, called anastrophe , cf. c. 5, These two fleets were called
classis praetoria Miseuensis and Rauennas or Rauennatium.
proximum litus praesidebant. For the syntax, cf. e. 72 and
iii 39 proximum exercitum praesidehat.
3. Actiaca uictoria, 31 b.c.
4. oppidum Foroiuliense, the modern Frejus. Cf. ii 63
Forum lulium, A'^arbonensis Galliae coloniam.
5. ualido cum remige, a Virgilian touch, as so often in
Tacitus. Cf. Aen. v 116 agit acri remige.
sad praecipuum robur. 'The army under the empire was a
standing one {aTpanwraL dOdvaToi) quartered in fixed districts and
provinces, each legion or group of legions having definite garrison
or police duties to perform.' (Camh. Companion to Latin Studies,
§ 721).
7. Hispaniaa. The two Spains here meant are Hispania
Tarraconensis and Lusitania.
recens perdomitaa. Cf. Livy xxxviii 17 beluae recens captae