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Arnold, Edward Vernon
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[81] ‘casta suo gladium cum traderet Arria Paeto, | quem de visceribus traxerat ipsa suis, | “si qua fides, vulnus quod feci non dolet,” inquit, | “sed quod tu facies, hoc mihi, Paete, dolet”’ Martial Ep. i 14; ‘praeclarum illud eiusdem, ferrum stringere, perfodere pectus, extrahere pugionem, porrigere marito, addere vocem immortalem et paene divinam “Paete, non dolet”’ Pliny Ep. iii 16, 6.
[82] See above, § 126.
[83] ‘non derunt et frugalitatis exactae homines et laboriosae operae’ Sen. Dial. x 18, 4. For the British official the authority of the author of Tales from the Hills will suffice.
[84] See below, § 448, note 115.
[85] Henderson’s Nero, pp. 31-38, 50-142, 257-288.
[86] See above, §§ 127-129.
[87] See above, § 125.
[88] Persius Sat. iii 66-72. The translations in this section are by Mr W. H. Porter.
[89]Phars. i 72 to 80.
[90]ib. vii 814 and 815.
[91] See above, § 242, note 9.
[92]Phars. ix 573 and 574.
[93]ib. 556 and 557.
[94]ib. 601 to 604. The force of this tribute is impaired by the similar praise given to Pompey (Phars. vii 682-689) and to Brutus (ib. 588 and 589).
[95] ‘quale coronati Thrasea Helvidiusque bibebant | Brutorum et Cassi natalibus’ Juv. Sat. v 36 and 37. See also G. Boissier, L’Opposition sous les Césars.
[96] Henderson’s Nero, pp. 90 sqq.
[97]Annals xiv 42, 2.
[97a] The government had in fact appointed an officer for the prevention of cruelty to slaves: ‘de iniuriis dominorum in servos qui audiat positus est, qui et saevitiam et libidinem et in praebendis ad victum necessariis avaritiam compescat’ Sen. Ben. iii 22, 3.
[98] Tac. Ann. xiv 57.
[99] See Henderson’s Nero, pp. 257-283.
[100] Tac. Ann. xvi 21-35.
[101] ‘Nero virtutem ipsam exscindere concupivit’ ib. 21.
[102]Hist. iv 5.
[103] Tac. Hist. iv 6.
[104] See above, §§ 130, 131.
[105] See above, § 444.
[106] Tac. Hist. iv 40.
[107]ib. 43 and 44.
[108] Dill, Roman Society, p. 152.
[109] Pliny Ep. vii 19, 7.
[110] τῷ ὄχλῳ προσέκειτο, βασιλείας τε ἀεὶ κατηγόρει, καὶ δημοκρατίαν ἐπῄνει Dion Cassius lxvi 12.
[111] Dion Cassius lxvi 13.
[112] See above, § 444.
[113] Tac. Hist. iii 80.
[114]Agr. 2; Suetonius, Dom. 10.
[115] Dion C. lxvii 13, Tac. Agr. 45.
[116] Pliny Ep. iii 11, 7.
[117] Tac. Hist. iv 40.
[118] A. Gellius N. A. xv 11, 5 (for Epictetus).
[119] Pliny Ep. iii 11, 3; ‘tot nobilissimarum feminarum exilia et fugas’ Tac. Agr. 45.