Chapter 9 and 10 practice question (Tacitus)
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- Sustaining reader's interest - Tacitus C9-10
- C9 - ac si modum orationi posuisset ... impleverat
- And if he had set a limit to his speech, he had filled
- conditional - puts doubt in readers minds
- sibilance - disapproval of long speech, should've been shorter
- pluperfect indicative - exaggeration, presenting what could have happened as fact
- And if he had set a limit to his speech, he had filled
- C9 - ut ferme amat posterior adulatio
- as flattery afterwards usually loves to do
- authorial comment - undermines sincerity, the funeral was just a show
- 'flattery' delayed - emphasis, that's the real reason for the added honours
- as flattery afterwards usually loves to do
- C10 - rumorem, validum adeo ut noudum exolescat:
- a rumour ... strong to such an extent that not yet is it extinct
- rumour used to entertain, and Tacitus open about evidence
- rumour still alive 100 years later - some truth in it
- a rumour ... strong to such an extent that not yet is it extinct
- C10 - corrupta ad scelus Livia Seianum Lygdi quoque spadonis animum stupro vinxisse
- with Livia having been corrupted into crime it is said Sejanus to have bound by depravity the mind also of Lygdus, a ******
- 'crime' promoted - close to Sejanus for negative association
- Sejanus' name in middle - shows his control over many people
- sibilance - sinister, negative sound to emphasise Sejanus as evil
- 'mind' - deep rooted corruption from Sejanus
- continues to blacken character of Sejanus
- with Livia having been corrupted into crime it is said Sejanus to have bound by depravity the mind also of Lygdus, a ******
- C 10 - ea fraude captum senem, postquam convivium inierat ... illo ignaro et inveniliter
- the old man, deceived by this trick, after he had started on the banquet ... with him being unaware and youthfully
- promoted - Tiberius tricked, didn't know what going on
- 'old man' - not use Tiberius' name - weakness
- indicative not subjunctive - 'live' reporting, actually happened, question if it is rumour
- ablative - not in control, doesn't know any better
- 'senem' and 'iuveniliter' - contrast - one old, one young
- the old man, deceived by this trick, after he had started on the banquet ... with him being unaware and youthfully
- C10 - metu et pudore ... patri struxerat
- from fear ... he had set up for his father
- strong Roman term - sympathy, didn't know what else to do
- nefarious verb - accusing him even though told as rumour, question if is still rumour
- from fear ... he had set up for his father
- C9 - ac si modum orationi posuisset ... impleverat
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