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Quam bene te ambitio mersit vanissima ventus? Et tumidos tumidae vos superastis aquae Quam bene totius raptores orbis auaros, Hausit inexhausti iusta vorago maris!
Gratia properly refers more to the present, ambitio to the future. Cf. Ann. 6, 46: Tiberio non perinde gratia praesentium, quam in posteros ambitio. Celeberrimus quisque. Such men as Pliny the elder, Claudius Pollio, and Julius Secundus, wrote biographies. Also Rusticus and Senecio. See chap. 2. Plerique. Not most persons, but many, or very many. Cf. Suam ipsi vitam. Autobiography.
Such critics have not reflected that this conception is found, not only in the literature, but also in the politics and the legislation; that Roman history is full, not only of invectives in prose and verse, but of laws and administrative provisions against luxuria, ambitio, avaritia a sign that these laments were not merely a foolishness of writers, or, as we say to-day, stuff for newspaper articles.
Quem nulla ambitio, nulla unquam largitio, Nullus timor, vis nulla, nulla auctoritas Movere potuit in inventa de statu, Ecce in senecta ut facile labefecit loco Viri excellentis mente clemente edita Summissa placide blandiloquens oratio! Et enim ipsi di negare cui nil potuerunt, Hominem me denegare quis posset pati?
Gall. Exc. Sc. 12. Ambitio. Primarily the solicitation of office by the candidate; then the parade and display that attended it; then parade in general, especially in a bad sense. Certis, i.e. rite statutis. Guen. Cumulant. Structura est poetica, cf. Virg. Aen. 11, 50: cumulatque altaria donis. Equus adjicitur.
In regard of which her Maiesties happy successe all her neighbours and friends congratulated with her, and many verses were penned to the honour of her Maiesty by learned men, whereof some which came to our hands we will here annexe. Strauerat innumeris Hispanus nauibus aequor, Regnis iuncturus sceptra Britanna suis. Tanti huius, rogitas, quae motus causa? superbos Impulit Ambitio, vexit Auaritia.
Per ambitionem==ex vitae splendore et numeroso comitatu. Br. cf. note on ambitio, G. 27. Quaererent interpretarentur. Interpretarentur, not famam but the facts above mentioned, and the necessity A. was under of living as he did. Viso aspectoque. On seeing him and directing their attention particularly to him. XLI. Crimen==public accusation. Querela==private complaint. Princeps, gloria, genus.
The avaritia of which they complained so much, was the greed and impatience to make money that we see to-day setting all classes beside themselves, from noble to day-labourer; the ambitio that appeared to the ancients to animate so frantically even the classes that ought to have been most immune, was what we call getting there the craze to rise at any cost to a condition higher than that in which one was born, which so many writers, moralists, statesmen, judge, rightly or wrongly, to be one of the most dangerous maladies of the modern world.
There is no doubt that the Latin writers, particularly Horace and Livy, were so severe in condemning this progressive movement of wants because of unconscious political solicitude, because intellectual men expressed the opinions, sentiments, and also the prejudices of historic aristocracy, and this detested the progress of ambitio, avaritia, luxuria, because they undermined the dominance of its class.
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