CORNELII TACITI ANNALIUM AB EXCESSU DIVI AUGUSTI LIBRI THE ANNALS OF TACITUS EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY HENRY FURNEAUX, M.A. FORMERLY FELLOW AND TUTOR OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD VOL. II BOOKS XI-XVI WITH A MAP Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCXCI [All rights reserved 】 PREFACE. THE text of this volume, like that of the former, is mainly that of Halm (ed. 4, Leipzig, 1883)1, but departs from it somewhat oftener, usually in the direction of retaining or approaching more closely to the Medicean readings 2. In the commentary, I have to add to the acknowledgements made in the first volume that of assistance frequently derived from the edition of Émile Jacob (Paris, 1877), then unfortunately overlooked, and those of Professor Holbrooke (London, 1882), and of Pfitzner, (Gotha, 1885), which, as also a further portion (Fasc. v-viii, pp. 481-928) of Gerber and Greef's Lexicon, have appeared since that volume was completed. Among new works bearing on the subject-matter in general, the chief place is due to the fifth volume of Professor Mommsen's Römische Geschichte' ('die Provinzen von Caesar bis Diocletian,' Berlin, 1885), and In the first volume, Halm's third edition (1877) was used; the text of which in several places differs from that of the later recension. * See notes on II. 24, II; 30, 3; 12. 25,3; 31, 2; 32, 1; 44, 5; 60, 3; 68, 2; 13. 17, 2; 21, 3 and 9; 34, 5; 47, 4; 56, 6; 14. 7, 2; 10, 5; 26, 3; 31, 4; 40, 4; 43, 4; 59, 6; 60, 6; 15. 9, 1; 21, 3; 28, 2; 43, I; 44,6; 45,6; 51,1; 55, 1; 58, 3; 68, 3; 16. 12, 3; 26, 3. I have also not followed Halm's present edition in omitting from the title of the work the word 'Annalium,' which, though resting on no authority, seems to have become indispensable from common use. 3 M. Jacob's first volume (Books i-vi.) reached a second edition in 1885. This date was before the publication, but after the substantial completion, of my former volume. 5 The references are throughout made both to the original work and to the English Translation (1886). |