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The notes elaborate on Roman offices, honors like triumphs, logistical details about provinces and plots against consuls, and terminological points such as “imperator” and “pactione provinciae.”
facetiae, multusque lepos inerat.* Both *facetiae* and *lepos_ mean "agreeableness, humor, pleasantry," but *lepos* here seems to refer to diction, as in Cic. Orat. i. 7: *Magnus in jocando lepos.* [142] XXVI. By an arrangement respecting their provinces--_Pactione provinciae_. This passage has been absurdly misrepresented by most translators, except De Brosses. Even Rose, who was a scholar, translated *pactione pro…
Valerius Flaccus recruits Cato into Roman state life by observing his labor and simplicity, leading Cato through offices to oppose Scipio with Fabius Maximus and push for Scipio’s recall.
to do, but in no respect because of that easiness and liberality at all the more negligent in things of consequence and moment, without impediment, set sail towards the war. Cato grew more and more powerful by his eloquence, so that he was commonly called the Roman Demosthenes; but his manner of life was yet more famous and talked of. For oratorical skill was, as an accomplishment, commonly studied and sought after…
Tacitus narrates Agricola’s service in Britain under Suetonius Paullinus, a period of Roman danger and reverses, his subsequent Rome career, and his moderation under Nero’s troubled times.
and avenger; but, with an uncommon degree of moderation, he chose rather to have it appear that he had found the legion obedient, than that he had made it so. 8. Vettius Bolanus was at that time governor of Britain, and ruled with a milder sway than was suitable to so turbulent a province. Under his administration, Agricola, accustomed to obey, and taught to consult utility as well as glory, tempered his ardor, and …