Annalium AB Excessu Divi Augusti Libri; The Annals of Tacitus Ed., with Introduction & Notes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...was a check on the otherwise absolute authority of the husband, who in cases 'flagranti delicti' might take summary vengeance (Cato ap. Cell. 10. 23, 5). For instances of such trials see a. 50, 4; Liv. 1. 1. and Epit. 48; Suet. Tib. 35; and others collected in Lips. Exc. on 4. 42; Marquardt, Privatl. s, 7. 1. de capite, in the Roman legal sense of the term. We can hardly suppose that at this date the punishment of death, so far in excess of that prescribed by public law (see on a. 50, 4), could have been inflicted. a. nuntiavit. This is generally altered by editors to 'pronuntiavit' (Muretus). 'Nuntiavit' however can stand if it is taken to mean, with Pfitzner, that he sent word of her acquittal to the senate which had referred the case to him. huic Pomponiae. The name is repeated, because Flautius has been since mentioned (cp. ia. 49, a). 3. Iuliam Drusi filiam. On this Iulia see Introd. i. ix. pp. 141, 149. Her great grandmother was a Pomponia, daughter of Atticus (a. 4a, 7), through whom this Graecina may have been related to her. She was the mother of Kubellius Plautus (c. 19. 3). Messalina is stated by Dio (60.18, 4) to have caused her to be put to death in A. D. 43, out of jealousy (CrjKoTviraaaa). Suet. (CI. 39) says 'crimine incerto nec defensione ulla data'. Suillius was employed to accuse her (c. 43, 3). 4. per quadraginta annoa, i. e. all the rest of her life. This would show her to have lived on to the time of Domitian. non cultu, &c, 'with no dress but that of mourning' cp.' laeto cultu ' (a. 75- 3): 'egit' = 'vixit', as in 1. 4, 4, &c 5. impune, used as an adj., cp. 1 impune esse' (1. 7a, 3, and note). 6. mox, in the reaction afterwards. 7. P. Celerem: see c. 1, 3, where it is said that he was 'procurator in Asia when he poisone...