Cornelii Taciti Annalium ab excessu divi Augusti libri: Books XI-XVIClarendon Press, 1891 - Rome |
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... held that all the other MSS . are ultimately derived from the Medicean , and that their readings are only worth quot- ing , either as successful emendations of its errors , or as perhaps preserving its text in places where it has now ...
... held that all the other MSS . are ultimately derived from the Medicean , and that their readings are only worth quot- ing , either as successful emendations of its errors , or as perhaps preserving its text in places where it has now ...
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... held games in honour of his victory 12. His infant son took the name of Britannicus , and many others received honours and decorations 13 . In the same year 1 Macedonia and Achaia were given back to the senate 15 ; the quaestorial ...
... held games in honour of his victory 12. His infant son took the name of Britannicus , and many others received honours and decorations 13 . In the same year 1 Macedonia and Achaia were given back to the senate 15 ; the quaestorial ...
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... held in that of Augustus . On the accession of Gaius , he emerges from a position of obscurity and neglect , and of personal safety assured thereby , into one of greater outward dignity , combined with greater real degradation , and no ...
... held in that of Augustus . On the accession of Gaius , he emerges from a position of obscurity and neglect , and of personal safety assured thereby , into one of greater outward dignity , combined with greater real degradation , and no ...
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... held under Augustus 10 , the double end was gained of rewarding a valuable ally , and of securing the temporary tranquillity of the country , under the rule of one who , though personally dissolute and worthless , had the popularity ...
... held under Augustus 10 , the double end was gained of rewarding a valuable ally , and of securing the temporary tranquillity of the country , under the rule of one who , though personally dissolute and worthless , had the popularity ...
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... held under Tiberius was reestablished by releasing and sending back Mithridates , the king originally chosen by him , who was enabled by the temporary weakness of Parthia to recover and maintain his authority 10 . The appointment of ...
... held under Tiberius was reestablished by releasing and sending back Mithridates , the king originally chosen by him , who was enabled by the temporary weakness of Parthia to recover and maintain his authority 10 . The appointment of ...
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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.