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Annals 4.28.1 – an Old Suggestion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. Wardle
D. Wardle
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The text in Annals 4.28.1 has exercised scholars' attention since the rediscovery of Tacitus in the Renaissance. The text of the Medicean manuscript for the central words reads: ‘vinctus peroranti filio praeparatur’. Two problems have been perceived: firstly that praeparatur lacks an expressed subject, although from the context it is perfectly clear that Serenus senior is meant; secondly, the meaning of praeparatur itself.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , May 1993, pp. 346 - 348
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1993

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References

1 The text offered in the latest edition of Annals 4 by Martin, R. H. and Woodman, A. J. (Cambridge, 1989)Google Scholar (henceforth Martin/Woodman).

2 Cf. Martin/Woodman, pp. 162f.

3 See the facsimile of the Medicean, Vries, S. de, Codices Graeci et Latini photographice depicti, vol. 7.1 (Leyden, 1902), plate 98RGoogle Scholar.

4 (Traiecti Batavorum, 1721), followed by Furneaux, H., The Annals of Tacitus 2 (Oxford, 1896)Google Scholar (henceforth, Furneaux), Fisher, C. D., Comelii Taciti Annalium Libri (Oxford, 1906)Google Scholar, although both read oranti, and H. Rostagno, in the preface to de Vries (above n. 3), p. xiii, who takes the poranti of M as an error.

5 (Leipzig, 1831): ‘audio virum magnum et meritis in litteras clarum Erricum Memmium legere: perorante filio pater… et rei et hominis causa quis non comprobet?’

6 Madvig, J. N., Adversaria critica ad scriptores Graecos et Latinos (Hauniae, 1871–1874)Google Scholar. This suggestion has been accepted by Nipperdey, K. and Andresen, G., P. Comelii Taciti Annales 11, vol. i (Berlin, 1915)Google Scholar and by Koestermann, E., Cornelius Tacitus Annales 1 (Leipzig, 1960)Google Scholar.

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8 Cf. Martin/Woodman, p. 163.

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14 In Verr. 2.1.2.

15 In Verr. 2.1.74, 2.3.55.

16 Pro Quinct. 75.

17 Pp. 162f.

18 Ann. 4.28.1. Cf. Martin/Woodman, 160f.

19 e.g. Cicero, , Pro Cluent. 18, 192Google Scholar; Mm. 86; Plane. 21. Livy records the practice in the strictly forensic context (2.23.2) and also of a Locrian embassy dressed to win sympathy from the senate (29.16.6), a description Furneaux conjectures as the basis of Tacitus’ here.