Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . SOUTH GATE Fig. 17. Plan of Silchester. ingenia . . anteferre: often taken to mean that he expresseda preference for British abilities over Gallic industry , flatteredthem by saying that their native wit would do more for them thandiligent culture did for the Gauls. But no such antithesis seems tobe intended, any more than in the similar passage in Dial. 1, 4 qui?iostrorum temporum eloquentiam antiquorum ingeniis anteferret,a contrast is intended between eloquentia and ingenium (cp. Gude-man ad loc). Agricola expressed a preference for British abilities
Cornelii Taciti de vita Agricolae . SOUTH GATE Fig. 17. Plan of Silchester. ingenia . . anteferre: often taken to mean that he expresseda preference for British abilities over Gallic industry , flatteredthem by saying that their native wit would do more for them thandiligent culture did for the Gauls. But no such antithesis seems tobe intended, any more than in the similar passage in Dial. 1, 4 qui?iostrorum temporum eloquentiam antiquorum ingeniis anteferret,a contrast is intended between eloquentia and ingenium (cp. Gude-man ad loc). Agricola expressed a preference for British abilities(as brought out by training) over the trained abilities of the Gauls,implying that the training which he was providing was needed tomake them the better orators. From the studia in which the io4 I I - • ol both ? lintfuum Roimtnuni. »d >11 ountry-hou. PLAN OF CAERWENT 18 and written even by the lower classes in the town--. In thecountry it was used, at least by the Uppi [ , RomaMMotiotii p. 29 ff., and : rodaced here. eloquentiam concupiscerent. Plutarch, in his dialogue Dedtj\\tu I, mentions, .1- nothing 1 lal, th<- return of a rhetorician, Demetri t B, from Britain, where he had been tea< hing in A. ime (the date of the dialogue is . ; he has left a memorial of hiin the two dedications on bro found al ad Hem: . 1-lph. Kf . In CHAPTER XXI, § 3 105 96 Martial says dicitur et nostros cantare Britannia versus(II. 3, 5). About 128 Juvenal casually speaks of Britishpleaders trained by (lallic eloquence (15, III). The appearance oflegati iuridici in Britain soon alter 80 indicates an extensionof Roman law courts in the island (Dessau, 1011, 1015). § 3. habitus nostri honor, sc. apud eos era/, our dress cameto be esteemed. Habitus, here explained by/requens toga, oftenmeans dress (c. 39, 2), but is
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