Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . militares viri, military men , soldiers , as we say : officers arehere meant. Cp. //. 3. 73, 3 J A. 4. 42. 2, &c. expugnati, implying that they were in possession of forts, is used in severalplaces of persons (H. 3. 19, 2 ; 5. 12, 2, and in Caesar, Livy, &c), sothat the emendation vici (J. F. Gronovius) is needless. tot, themarginal variant in E, seems preferable to totis. For the repetitionof tot, cp. Livy, 25. 24, 12. nee iam de limite imperii et ripa. &c. Xo longer was it thefrontier-line of the empire and river-bank that were ripa is that
Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . militares viri, military men , soldiers , as we say : officers arehere meant. Cp. //. 3. 73, 3 J A. 4. 42. 2, &c. expugnati, implying that they were in possession of forts, is used in severalplaces of persons (H. 3. 19, 2 ; 5. 12, 2, and in Caesar, Livy, &c), sothat the emendation vici (J. F. Gronovius) is needless. tot, themarginal variant in E, seems preferable to totis. For the repetitionof tot, cp. Livy, 25. 24, 12. nee iam de limite imperii et ripa. &c. Xo longer was it thefrontier-line of the empire and river-bank that were ripa is that of the Danube. The limes imperii might naturallybe taken to mean the Upper German limes drawn by Domitianfrom the borders of Lower Germany (Rheinbrohl) along the Taunusridge and southwards to the Agri Decumates annexed byVespasian,âa frontier road guarded by a chain of small earth forts,with watch-towers between them, and connected with the legionary L 2 \oi KS â I u ho l)ii! n .lam to the: wht< li. the midd â . Vu w nube front patrolling from the column ot explana The latter term, which in centui) a militai. tration, pi of defensive homier- ll. It nei imply the existen the type i many, although a characteristicfeatun -tern, the square sto is with ti: :mn in the openii :oi. posseBsione. * maintenance of whole p mpares eontinuarentur. folio to with omnia annus. CHAPTERS XLI, § 3âXLII, § 1 149 expertum bellis. Tacitus has this construction elsewhere andalso expert us belli (//. 4. 76. 2). cum aliorum. It is clear that the MSS. eorum is wrong,and it is perhaps easiest to suppose coy. to be a misreading of uoy., theabbreviation of aliorum. cp. H. 3. 3 unutn virum .. spreia aliorumsegnitia (quoted by Andresen). Aliorum is used below, butTacitus is not careful to avoid such repetitions. Ceterorum wouldbe more emphatic, but seems less easy palaeographically. §4. auris verberatas: a figure taken from Plautus {Amph. 333, &<â â¢â dum : best taken
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