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Mathew Owen and Ingo Gildenhard Tac
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Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 La
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Contents 1. Preface and acknowledge
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1. Preface and acknowledgements
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as to inform. Finally, for each cha
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At the outset of his Annals, which
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69 - 79 Vespasian In Rome from 75 o
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It would be misleading... to concep
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the Roman aristocracy remained a hi
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a text, early imperial Rome comes a
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in which he employed yet another ge
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Period Regime/ emperor in charge Ch
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In his history of Rome and Roman hi
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to the two high magistrates who ent
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One conspicuous aspect of the Annal
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centre of gravity is displaced to a
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judiciously aporetic stance on whet
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Stage 1: AD 54-58 Stage 2: AD 59-63
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this policy involves his presence i
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The passage offers excellent insigh
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interfered. Moreover, he identifies
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3. Latin text with study questions
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exim Cretensis, -e reus agor, agi,
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privatus, -i, m. viso, -ere, visi,
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adsensus, -us, m. celebro, -are, -a
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ultra (+ acc.) appello, -are, -avi,
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in dies cupido, -inis, f. adigo, -e
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arbitror, -ari, -atus sum providus,
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munus, -eris, n. frequento, -are, -
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omitto, -ere, -misi, -missum in inc
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adquiro, -ere, -quisivi, -quisitum
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prodo, -ere, -didi, -ditum circus,
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ago, -ere, egi, actum Palatium, -ii
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demum imus, -a, -um Esquiliae, -aru
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insula, -ae, f. numerum ineo, -ire,
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ceterum ruina, -ae, f. proinde ...
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Gallicus, -a, -um distinctio, -onis
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piaculum, -i, n. Sibyllae libri, -o
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confero, -ferre, -tuli, -latum perv
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The assigned portion of text begins
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Then a sudden transition in narrati
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starring Thrasea Paetus, are an exc
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conveys a sense of function, purpos
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additional offence outweighs the ot
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e (or traditionally were)? We may a
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. Illustration (sic...) c. Gnomic g
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disapproved of flowery rhetoric as
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[Therefore, after everything was pr
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omnibus libidinum inlecebris replet
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‘tu regere imperio populos, Roman
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whereby (quo)... we depart from the
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conducive to Thrasea’s argument -
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thinly masked by rhetorical general
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especially arresting. (Note that as
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The construction - a conditional se
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for almost everyone else the mind a
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We are still in AD 62, but Tacitus
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and the variation in constructions
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first and the second item with et a
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The (Senonian) Gauls had captured a
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[There was nothing however in which
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36) in the striking phrase patriae
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inritae spei. The idea of the canal
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Chapter 43 nulla distinctione nec
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In Tacitus, the emphatic nulla and
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uinis erat; vacuas areas occupare e
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were meant to patrol the aqueducts
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( Chapter 44 44.1 Et haec quidem h
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quam mulierum disciplinam contineri
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offering up scapegoats to cover his
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the Romans’ point of view - a con
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c-alliteration conveying Tacitus’
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After dilaceration, Tacitus lists t
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he aimed at. Tacitus could almost c
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etiam. As often, Tacitus does not l
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onis artibus) he received. Tacitus
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The failure of the plan is stressed
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Fisher, C. D. (ed.) (1906), Corneli
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—. (2010), Monument und Inschrift
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Kraus, C. S. and Woodman, A. J. (19
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Sumi, G. S. (2005), Ceremony and Po
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Rome’ by Richardprints @ Wikimedi
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