Matheson Collection > Annals of Tacitus, Book IV

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6. ciuiliter habuit, 'took as a citizen should,' i.e. in a
popular spirit, not as an emperor {non ui princifis, iii 12).
Cf. iii 76 quod ciuiliter acceptum ; Hist, ii 21 comitia ciuiliter
celebrans; also Juvenal v 112 jjoscirmis ut cenes ciuiliter. Later
writers are fond of the antithesis, e.g. Capitolinus, adepti imperium
ita ciuiliter se ambo egerunt.
habuit. N. quotes xii 48 cum laetitia hahe7ulum ; xv 28 cum
hostili odio hahehatur.
7. impetus... languerat, 'the first access of ill-feeling had
faded away.'
8. secreti sennonis aduersum maiestatem. Note the ex-
tension of iiiaiesta.i to spoken words. See Introduction viii.
10. gladio accinctum. It was forbidden by law to wear a
sword in the city.
11. atrocius uero, 'too outrageous to be true.' For the idiom
N. quotes Hor. Epist. i 10, 43 calceus j^erfe maior ; Livy ii 27
curatio altior fustigio suo.
12. ceterorum...reus, 'he was indicted on the remaining
counts heaped up in large numbers.'
13. neque peractus, ' but his trial was not brought to a
conclusion.'
ob mortem opportunam. Cf. Agric. 4:5felix opportiinitate mortis.
relatum, ' a motion was made ' in the Senate.
14. Cassio Seue ro. Oass iiis was an ab le and elegant rhe-
t orician, of whom Quintilian writes , plus bills habet aua m
sqjiffuiHiis (x 1, 117).
15. orandi ualidus, ' a forcible speaker at the bar,' lit. ' strong
in pleading.' For the Tacitean genitive of the thing in point of
which cf. the genitives with occultus (c. 7), peruicax (c. 53),
praeclarus (c. 34).
16. iudicio iurati senatus. For voting on oath cf. c. 31
ut iure iurando obstringerct e re publica id esse ; and Livy xxx 40
patres iurati censuerunt. It was to give greater solemnity.
18. aduertit, 'drew on himself.' Cf. Pliny Epist. ix 26
omnes aduertit quod eminet et exstat.
bonis exutus, a frequent Tacitean metaphor, — ' stripped of liis
property.'