Cornelii Taciti Annalium ab excessu divi Augusti libri: Books XI-XVIClarendon Press, 1891 - Rome |
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Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. INTRODUCTION . CHAPTER I. On the Text of these Books , and the second Medicean manuscript . CHAPTER II . Summary of the principal events between the end of the Sixth and beginning of the Eleventh Book ...
Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. INTRODUCTION . CHAPTER I. On the Text of these Books , and the second Medicean manuscript . CHAPTER II . Summary of the principal events between the end of the Sixth and beginning of the Eleventh Book ...
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Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. Nicoli of Florence , one of the agents employed by him for collecting manuscripts . In acknowledging its receipt , Bracciolini writes as follows ( Oct. 21 ) , ' Misisti mihi librum Senecae , et Cornelium ...
Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. Nicoli of Florence , one of the agents employed by him for collecting manuscripts . In acknowledging its receipt , Bracciolini writes as follows ( Oct. 21 ) , ' Misisti mihi librum Senecae , et Cornelium ...
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Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. proceedings were taken against any of the persons implicated , except Valerius Asiaticus1 . CHAPTER III . ON THE VIEW GIVEN BY TACITUS OF THE CHARACTER AND GOVERNMENT OF GAIUS , CLAUDIUS , AND NERO . I ...
Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. proceedings were taken against any of the persons implicated , except Valerius Asiaticus1 . CHAPTER III . ON THE VIEW GIVEN BY TACITUS OF THE CHARACTER AND GOVERNMENT OF GAIUS , CLAUDIUS , AND NERO . I ...
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Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. that he had read his character rightly : ' He would have Sulla's vices with- out ... Tacitus is lost to us . We are led however to believe , from what has been already noted , that Tacitus would have ...
Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. that he had read his character rightly : ' He would have Sulla's vices with- out ... Tacitus is lost to us . We are led however to believe , from what has been already noted , that Tacitus would have ...
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Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. unawares in full view of the end for which he and his adherents may have been none the less deliberately laying their plans . Our most serious loss is that of the record and judgment of Tacitus ...
Cornelius Tacitus Henry Furneaux. unawares in full view of the end for which he and his adherents may have been none the less deliberately laying their plans . Our most serious loss is that of the record and judgment of Tacitus ...
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Page 515 - ... et pereuntibus addita ludibria, ut ferarum tergis contecti laniatu canum interirent aut crucibus adfixi [aut flammandi atque], ubi defecisset dies, in usu[m] nocturni luminis urerentur.
Page 553 - circus soli principaliter consecratur, cuius aedes medio spatio et effigies de fastigio aedis emicat'. As Jacob suggests, the Sun was no doubt worshipped in this place as the great charioteer. The worship appears to be of Sabine origin; Sol being represented in legend as one of the gods of Tatius: see Varr. LL 5. 68; Dion. Hal. 2. 50. in quo faoinus parabatur: see c.
Page 209 - Ut dirum nomen la/tronis taceam, et odi illud palaestricum prodigium, quod ante in do/mum consulatum intulit, quam 277 colonia sua solidum civitatis Roma/паe benificium consecuta est. Idem de fratre eius possum dicere, / miserabili quidem indignissimoque hoc casu, ut vobis utilis / senator esse non possit.
Page 230 - ... quia id genus animalium aratro subditur, sulcus designandi oppidi coeptus, ut magnam Herculis aram amplecteretur ; inde certis spatiis interiecti lapides per ima montis Palatini ad aram Consi, mox curias veteres, turn ad sacellum Larum, inde forum Romanum ; forumque1 et Capitolium non a Romulo, sed a Tito Tatio additum urbi credidere.
Page 180 - Gracchanus denique lunius libro septimo de potestatibus etiam ipsum Romulum et Numam Pompilium binos quaestores habuisse, quos ipsi non sua voce, sed populi suffragio crearent, refert.
Page 514 - Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat ; repressaque in praesens exitiabilis superstitio rursum erumpebat, non modo per ludaeam, originem eius mali, sed per urbem etiam, quo cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque.
Page 593 - Bithyniae et mox consul vigentem se ac parem negotiis ostendit. dein revolutus ad vitia seu vitiorum imitatione inter paucos familiarium Neroni adsumptus est, elegantiae arbiter, dum nihil amoenum et molle adfluentia putat, nisi quod ei Petronius adprobavisset.
Page 209 - Comatae Galliae causa agenda est, in qua si quis hoc intuetur, quod bello per decem annos exercuerunt divom lulium, idem opponat centum annorum immobilem fidem obsequiumque multis trepidis re35 bus nostris plus quam expertum.
Page 559 - Jerusalem ; whilst those of Jesus, known by the more celebrated name of Christians, diffused themselves over the Roman Empire. How natural was it for Tacitus, in the time of Hadrian, to appropriate to the Christians the guilt and the sufferings which he might, with far greater truth and justice, have attributed to a sect whose odious memory was almost extinguished...
Page 209 - Quod si haec ita esse consentitis, quid ultra desidera|tis , quam ut vobis dígito demonstren!, solum ipsum ultra fines | provinciae Narbonensis iam vobis senatores mittere, quando | ex Luguduno habere nos nostri ordinis viros non paenitet.