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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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misfired: once brought into the pre
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sounded (gob-smackingly?) incongruo
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The priesthood of the Arval Brother
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ludicrum circense ut Iuliae genti a
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ursusque exortae [sc. sunt] adulati
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These figures help to explain the h
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verbs. Within the relative clause i
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() 33.1-34.1 Chapter 33 cec
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granting all the other citizens a f
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inde initiThe alliteration stresses
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In the midst of this unseemly rabbl
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opposite. In addition the pleonasti
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34.2 ergo per compositos cantus gra
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Vatinius offers the occasion for a
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Vatinius’ sense of humour was as
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Tree). The murder harks back to the
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turned into an implicit threat to N
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could have vetoed the capital punis
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Like nec multo post, this word (‘
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This technique of ‘alternative mo
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he had never before been in the hab
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ergo ut in privatis necessitudinibu
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than the more neutral meaning of th
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The arrangements made were as follo
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quas a Tigellino paratas [sc. esse]
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animalia maris are well balanced ph
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himself by a warm plunge, or, if it
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The antecedent of quo is nihil; quo
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The name is Greek, conjuring ideas
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‘oderam te’, inquit. ‘nec qui
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For future reference, more specific
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save them from the outside, while p
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[For none of you, fellow citizens,
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this thematic choice intertwines wi
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to undergo the painful process of l
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auctores prodidere), sed omnibus qu
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eginning (coeptus), to immediately
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disaster. In fact, much of the Rome
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into the streets, whereas sternere
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(‘On the occasion of a stubborn f
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This is a significant step: emperor
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ut continuae violentiae [sc. ignium
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... Aemilianis is an ablative of or
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once more evokes the image of the c
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also in the context of a fire (cite
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temple stood in the Forum. Tacitus
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Tacitus places the accusative objec
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include it as a potentially amusing
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unaque iam tota stabat in urbe domu
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quam arva et stagna et in modum sol
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gignendis aquis is a gerundive in t
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cites a two-line poem (a ‘distich
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[He divided the area of the city in
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These types of rock were of volcani
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finish to the chapter helps to conv
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struck by divine inspiration) of th
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from his own perceived culpability.
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it, ‘there is no question that th
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of true religion (superstitio). See
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proceedings against the sect. 194 T
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are already notorious: Tacitus has
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money-raising affected every part o
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45.2 enimvero per Asiam atque Achai
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ficta and quasi return us to a favo
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5. Bibliography
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Ash, R. (2006), Tacitus, Bristol.
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—. (2009), ‘Tacitus as historia
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Oakley, S. P. (2009a), ‘Res olim
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6. Visual aids
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Domus Aurea. A photograph of part o
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