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STYLE
(^) from participle to final or causal clause; sivc . . . suspectans
. . sive ut . . . , xiii 39, i ; sive . . . incautus . . . sive ut . . .,
xiii 46, I ; cf. also xv 69, 2 ; or from a noun to such a clause, fato
quodam an quia praevalent inlicita, xiii 12, 2; supplicationes . ..
utque, xiii 8, i ; statuae . . . utque, xiii 41, 5.
(//) from gerundial ablative to participle, trahens . . . interpre-
tando, xiii 47, i ; adsurgens . . . populando, xv 3S, 4.
65 [93]- Tacitus further takes evident pains to vary the expression
of facts that have to be stated often ; the great number of different
phrases used by him for such events as death, suicide, banishment
will be readily noticed on reading the text.
V. Influence of Imitation.
66 [95]. The Graecisms in Tacitus are chiefly such as had
already become naturalized in Latin, and most have been noticed
in previous paragraphs. To these may be added ut quisque
audentiae habuisset, xv 53, 3 ; ut coniectare erat, xvi 34, 2.
67 [96]. Archaic words revived by Tacitus are mercimonium,
XV 38, 2 (Plautus), and perduellis, xiv 29, 2 (Ennius, Plautus, &c.).
68 [97]. The debt of Tacitus to his chief predecessors in historical
writing and to the great classical poets may here be illustrated by
a few instances : others can be gathered from previous sections, cf.
§ 51 {(I) ; and many others are pointed out in the notes on the text.
(1) Sallust : Afuuils
Cat. 25, 5 ingenium eius haut absurdum . . xiii 45, 2
Jug. 4, 2 memet studium meum laudando ex-
toUere
Cat. 2, 3 aequabilius atque constantius
Fr. H. 2, 30 advorsa in pravitatem declinando
Fr. //. 4, 31 volentia plebi facturus
y^'g- 5) 3 pauca supra repetam
(2) Livy:
vii 37, 14 velut indagine ....
vii 17, 3 sacerdotes eorum and foil,
(3) Vergil:
Aefi. ii 374 rapiunt ( = diripiunt) .
„ x 532 belli commercia . . .
„ iii 55 fas omne abrumpit
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