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Ad solemnia pietatis. To perform the last offices of filial affection. Nuntio deprehensus. Supply est, cf. 4: jussus. Affectati. Cf. note, G. 28. Principatus, sc. Vespasiani. Mucianus regebat. Vesp. was detained in Egypt for some time after his troops had entered Rome under Mucianus; meanwhile Mucianus exercised all the imperial power, cf. His. 4, 11. 39: vis penes Mucianum erat.
The poets put what they would say with greater emphasis and grace; witness these two epigrams: "Alcon hesterno signum Jovis attigit: ille, Quamvis marmoreus, vim patitur medici. Ecce hodie, jussus transferri ex aeede vetusta, Effertur, quamvis sit Deus atque lapis." and the other: "Lotus nobiscum est, hilaris coenavit; et idem Inventus mane est mortuus Andragoras.
Father-in-law of Caligula, cf. Suet. Calig. 23: Silanum item socerum ad necem, secandasque novacula fauces compulit. Jussus. Supply est. T. often omits est in the first of two passive verbs, cf. 9: detentus ac statim ... revocatus est. Abnuerat, lit. had refused, because the refusal was prior to the slaying. We, with less accuracy, say refused. Rarae castitatis. Ellipsis of mulier.
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