equorum studio vel praecipue ab ineunte aetate flagravit plurimusque illi sermo, quamquam vetaretur, de circensibus erat;
He was excited by a passion for horses most especially from his early youth, and most of his conversation, although it was forbidden, was about the races.
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et quondam tractum prasinum agitatorem inter condiscipulos querens, obiurgante paedagogo, de Hectore se loqui ementitus est.
And once, complaining among his fellow classmates about a charioteer from the Greens who had been dragged, while his paedagogus was telling him off, he pretended that he was talking about Hector.
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sed cum inter initia imperii eburneis quadrigis cotidie in abaco luderet, ad omnes etiam minimos circenses e secessu commeabat, primo clam, deinde palam,
But although at the beginning of his reign he played with ivory chariots every day on a board, he used to travel to all, even the most insignificant, games from his country retreat, at first in secret, then openly,
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ut nemini dubium esset eo die utique affuturum.
so that no-one was in doubt (lit. there was doubt to no-one) that on that day he would definitely be there.
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neque dissimulabat velle se palmarum numerum ampliari; quare spectaculum multiplicatis missibus in serum protrahebatur,
Nor did he disguise that he wanted the number of prizes to be increased; in which way/as a result of which, with the number of races multiplied, the show was extended into the later hours.
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ne dominis quidem iam factionum dignantibus nisi ad totius diei cursum greges ducere.
And not even the managers of the teams were now considering it worthwhile to bring their teams unless to a whole day’s racing.
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mox et ipse aurigare atque etiam spectari saepius voluit positoque in hortis inter servitia et sordidam plebem rudimento universorum se oculis in Circo Maximo praebuit,
Soon he even wanted to be a charioteer himself and also to be watched more frequently, and with a trial run arranged in the gardens among a group of slaves and some dirty common people, he presented himself to the eyes of all in the Circus Maximus,
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aliquo liberto mittente mappam unde magistratus solent.
with a certain freedman letting go of the napkin from the place where magistrates usually do it.
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Card 2
Front
And once, complaining among his fellow classmates about a charioteer from the Greens who had been dragged, while his paedagogus was telling him off, he pretended that he was talking about Hector.
Back
et quondam tractum prasinum agitatorem inter condiscipulos querens, obiurgante paedagogo, de Hectore se loqui ementitus est.
Card 3
Front
But although at the beginning of his reign he played with ivory chariots every day on a board, he used to travel to all, even the most insignificant, games from his country retreat, at first in secret, then openly,
Back
Card 4
Front
so that no-one was in doubt (lit. there was doubt to no-one) that on that day he would definitely be there.
Back
Card 5
Front
Nor did he disguise that he wanted the number of prizes to be increased; in which way/as a result of which, with the number of races multiplied, the show was extended into the later hours.
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