De vita et moribus Julii Agricolae et De Germania: Agricola and Germania;

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alter another.

9. AemineCEA ior semivivos is a Vergilian avord, irequent in post- AuguStan poetry, ut Ver rare in Prose e. g. iv. XXIII. 5, 8 and Tac Hist. III. 28. In Greeli on the ther and the Ver opposite USage obtains, ὴμ ιθνη Dein quite common, herea hiali Mo is notfound at nil, Xeept in ver late riterS. 10. Equitum m equorum, Se Britanorum. Here equivalent to equi

sine rectoribus se below). his confusion is et illi res artyrus Ennius, 237 V. quadrupes eu tes, and a imitat ed by Verg. Geor'. III. 116 and thers. Seo the intorest in discussion in Geli Noct. Att. XVIII. 5. With tho acceptanee of this interpretation, hielicis Spe eiali probabie in te o the ver extensive indebio iners Oi Tacitusto Vergil. at tho dimouities, O hieli his Paragraph has i ven riSe,

With the rivortes chariois ut fustere corinarii rushest in to themides of the batile. The hi therio universali acceptest XPlanation, Whiel understa nil turmae of the Roman cava F, is incompatibio illi

o the Briton as et a by the hili sui face. The result of this is

expressest in the last elause, ac . . . in urSah Iut.

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Chapte 37. O. vincentium: Significantly Sed Or victorum, io the actioni the Briton Ahowed that the at leas diu notos et admit that the Roman had Won a victory, ut a bestini temporary

ni On illi brachylogy, Se Introd. P. XXXii. 21. QuRttuor . . . IRA: lieSe our quadron O cavair haualso been pustuae eaepertes. The are Speciali mentione here, Decause the were probabi no a par of thos referrest to astormin the acies ch. 35, 13 . a aulaita Dellici foris sud leuemergen cy. The Substantival Se i neuter plural adjective is per-haps moro frequent in Tacitus than in an previous writer Save Seneca. alio phras it Selici a vox Liviana. p. also Hist. V. 10, duae sibi delectos retimi erat ad improvisa. 25. tranaveCtaequo the cause i here adiised paratacticali tolli effect in place of a clauS With cum P. Germ. 22 9. 2 T. ApEClaCulum : Se adspiciebatur. 11 his ellipsis, o DeloW,l. 3l, nil λὶtrod. P. XXXi. 2B. atque o the collocation the last member Dein amplisiodani thorofore Oinsed by a conjunotion to a precedin a Syndeton, See Introd. P. XXV iii. - The entire paSSage is learly mouet ei upon Sall. Iust. 101 1l, tum spectacillum horribile in campis patentibus sequi, Iussere, Occidi, capi . . . Omnia, qua viSVS erat, constrata telis, armis, cadaveribus et inter ea inmus infecta anssuine. 29. hostium, though elonginit armatorum, hi uti by it inde- pondent position is tho more effectivel contrastest illi inermes, is here placet at ille eginning bocause it depenus upon both catervaeani quidam, hicli are in turn in antithesis. 30 terga DTREAtare ne expreSSion coine to avo in the stereo typed phra Se tersta dare, praebere. On hi peeuliari Tacitean ave

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aliquancto . . . virtuSQuS: Se redit, a ShOWn by Tacitus' modol, Verg. Aen. II. 367, ut tutam etiam victis redit tu praecordia virtus.

alium principem expectantes, and the construction is quite common in Livy. In aditus ni here, and sed to voti tho repetition i

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1O. rari i)n the ellipsis of Sed, Se Introd. P. XXX i. 11 fini . . . Atieta fuit ni sth aud repletion ut an ensi tothe pursuit. - 11 the Singulia Prediente, P. Ote h. 4, 2 l. CREARhostium . . . CECictere: Helent historians generali stirini fronagivin an Xaut uimber of the fallon in attio even Iulion such Wasa scorta in able They preior a round number instea', Suallymiore ortes exaggerat ed, o elSe the refrain frona menti Oning any. p. lin. Epist. IX. l6, , cum historicorum more scribas numerum iniri non

potuisse. That this a the praetico o Tacitus is expressi att0sted by a no tost assage of his Histories, cilest y Orosius VII. 10 4,

nisi C. Tacitus . . . de reticendo interfectorum numero et Sallustium et alios auctores . . . sanaeisse et se ipsum idem potissimum leuisse dixisset. In his Xtant ork there a re ni four ther exceptionS,

i perhaps authentio the information e in probabi due o Agricola himseli. On the sepetition of the Verb See note ch. 32, 16.13. in quis this archai forin Occur oni here in the minor Works though ery common in ille later Writings. Tacitus ad spolien ch. 35 15 of the lor os inning a vietornwithou los of Roman lood The fato Oi his reieci is incidentali notest asthe ni apparent Xception for even his death a due to a mero accident. Aisionern riter Nould probabi liave mentioned his in a

and the reSUltantiooty. et . . . Quictem . . . Eritanni the ellipsis o sed, Xtremel common in TaeitUS i QSpeeinllyra niter et . . . quidem. 16. AlantEA, separatiust, qui Vnient to rarὶ, bove, O disiectos ch. 20, δ), is a favori te term in Tacitus, and used of soldier breuking thoi ΓΛHkN. 1 T. Tatiero, te. ObServe the neeumulation Os en historica in finitivos, and p. note h. 5, 28.1B. per iram in their orath, qui Valent, a Ver Often in . . to a Diodat abbati Vo. ultro tu all/ sto iust O far acto.

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19. Consilia aliqua devisin some 'lan or ther aliqua is rasedio emphasige illo ill-maturest character of theSe planS. Aeparare, separatim repere consilia, the sua method o barbarians se notoch. 12, 24. The two veri, are Similari combinsed in Quint. IV. 2. 10l, miscenda sit an separanda narratis. 2O. Dignorum their dear ones A poetie Ord ior hild ren iouni repentedi in TaeitIS. 21. Ati Aque ConAtalant a faVorite phraso in Tacitus Tho imperieci, for the present, alles the eastor haut to the reportestseli asgiven a the time by eye-Witn0SSe of this Seene, and thus revenis tamquam frona Dein regna dei a the subjective inferetice of th author, a Sage no found in Tacitus. Se note ch. 6, 9 The

Cp. h. 15, 24 i. and Germ. 8, 17. 22. te faCiem . . . Peruit pei Sonifications os tui anu figurative se of facies are common in Latin riters, ut his particular metaphor Seenis O be a ne coinage, an is ound ni here ForanalogOu PhraseS, p. o. g. h. 22 5 36, 4 Hist. IV. 29, novum aciem dies aperuit 62, detexit lynominiam campus et dies. 23. RAtum . . . Silentium: So iv. X. 34, 6 and ac Nisi. III. 13 Ann. III. IV. 60. Aeciret ColleA lonely, quiet, a belligno longe occupi sed a Dei ore. - Dieturo Sque oueh. For his mean in Oi secreti, P. Germ. 40 4, Secreto lacu i. e. removet froni humanhabitations) Ann. XI. Hist. III. 13. - Observe the sine cumula live essecti the asyndeton giving the idea Of eir desolation asciara the y eould reaeli See Iutrod. P. XXVii. 25. incerta fuga vestigia probat lyra reminiScenc O Luean VIII 4, here the identient XPreSSion e iurS. 26. et i et praeterea. p. note h. 10, 19.2P. Apargi Dellum the Oetica Phra Se Oeeur again, An n. III.

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Pag 26. I. AeCuncta tempestate a fama reii favorable

proπimo : i. o. to the Roman On the continent liene ea steria Tlio distanee botween thoni as undere stimatest, and the relative positions

plural formet On ili analog o litterae, a letior, Seem to Occurriti stin Velloius anu is qui te common later Taeitus has twenty-0iglit instaneeS, ut, Xeeptin iliis assage, the a re confined to the Historie and thu rs thro book of the Anii iis thereatior, litterae Arestore t favor. Mitti Agriuola' modest elinVior, p. h. 18, 18. Domitiano moris erat, Domitianus, ut ei moris erat. For a simi lar attraction into the sub ordinate elauso, ep. noto ch. 5, 20 and

Introd. . XXX.ε. fronte laetus. DECtor antatus With th antithesis, P. Cic. ad Att. V. 10, 3 haec ipsa fero . . . fronte et vultu e lissime, Sed angor intimis sensibus Tae. List. II. Ib laetitiam . . . vultu ferens,

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animo anaeius. - n lae adjective O the ni Verb, CP ch. 5, 2. EaCepit the fac that Tacitus is able to repor Domitian's bellavior, and the Se i excepit for accepit, See in to imply on the ne haud, thepresence of WitneSSeS; On ille ther, ilia the letter a rea to theemperor. Inerat ConSCientia: the Samae Phrase Oeeur Hist. III. 86. T. erigui au object of mockery A rare OSi Au Stan Ord, e. g. Sen. Contr. IV. Prooem. 10. See note ch. 32, 18. nuper fAISum . . . triumphum the eampnigii against the Chatti in 3 . D. , again neeringi alluded to in Germ. 37, 24, triumphati a gis quam victi sunt. Although IJomitian id not in an militar laureis him- Seli, ille ar carrie On Under ii auSpices reSultei in a permanent extension of the Roman limes O frontier, a Tne Germ. 29, 19, though e purposely condeat Domitian name, admits. B. Emptis, etc. a Simila Stor is tot o Calistula by Suet Cad. 47, Who relates that the semperor ad hi pseudo-barbarian non tantum rutilare et si 'mittere comam sed et sermonem Germanicum addiscere et nomina barbarica ferre. It is to thisirst sham triumphtha Tacitus Seem to allude in Germ. 37 20, o iustentes Gai Caesaris minus in ludibrium versae derisui fuisse . 11. Celelarari depenus upon inerret conscientia. An aestusative Willi infinitive overno by a notan, an osten, as here, followed by indirect diSeourSe i quite common e. g. h. 9, 24 40, 24 3, 4 Hist. V. 20 Ann. I. 6. - n the OneiseneS Oi XPreSSion, Se Introd. p. xxiii. ct Sila . . . Ormictulo Eum : Se esse videbatur. O be Supplied by Zeugma ut O inerat conscientia, the proSene O sibi preventin the alter irom ein reta inest a the overning clauSe. CP. Introd. p. XXXii privati homini h subjeci. his, O civiliau, a contrasted illi mastistratus, i the regula mean in os privatus m OSt-Augustata riterS With the Statem en itself, p. Dio Cass.

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predicativo position Dili attributive Se Introd. P. XXV. 16. XeroituA Urouyht pq suci resectio HS. Quoctque . . . erat in apposition illi the fossoWin Clause. 1 P. SECreto Euo Antiatus Q. e. nVin iud indulg0d in lites char aeteristi speret brOOding ovor hi in alter. - Ote the alliteration. With tho statem sentcit Aelf, p. Plin. Panest. 8, inmanissima bellua su Domitium s relut quodam specu in ius . . . teuebra Semper Secretumque captantem in PraeAentia possibi the ablativo of the substantive, O tho neuter phirat articipie, Willi tempora Under-stood. 0ither forin Oecur et sewhere in adituS, he Sin in praesens insteast thougli e praesentibus is also frequently found AS an ablative singula in an adverbia Sense, the Phra Se i eXtremel rare. P.

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emphatio position O tho Verb See Introd. P. XXVi. S. EuCCensorici probabi Sallustius Lucullus, executed by Domitia formani in arae v kindi Spear alter him Seli. q. notaVilia AAet attrac attention notabilis is no found illthe Augustan perio', ut is i frequent occurrenoe in Tacitus Cele-laritate et frequentia ooCurrentium by the constant stream off)e le Omin i meet hini. - By Way O contra St, P. the conduci iPiso in Ann. III. , auxit uisti rus, q)tia navem tum ut Caesari madpulerat dieque et ripa frequenti astu clientitim agmine ipse, feminarum comitatu Plancina et vultu alacres incessere Se Romam).

cOurtesu in conversation, assable uno aut altero : Oue Or, at est, treo. Aster a pasSive tho iud te ablative sis person, repreSente asan active agent, is rare and hi est poetic Cp. Curi. VIII. 14, 15,