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Licet communius a vulgo dicatur quod sylvestres Scoti erant victi, ab annalibus tamen oppositum invenio: solum Insularum comes coactus est retrocedere, et plures occisos habuit quam Scoti domiti...." Bk. vi, ch. x.
"The diction of Tacitus," he says, "is more florid and exuberant in the books of the History, terser and drier in the Annals: meanwhile he is staid and eloquent in both: no other historian was read with equal pleasure by Cosmo de' Medici, the Duke of Tuscany, a man, who, if there was one, possessed the greatest genius for statesmanship, and was clearly made to rule": "Dictio Taciti floridior uberiorque in Historiarum est libris, pressior, sicciorque in Annalibus.
PERMANSERAT: i.e. during the siege of Tarentum. INTERFUISSET: not in accordance with English idiom; cf. n. on 4 putassent; also 44 devicerat. The latest date assigned by other authorities for Plato's last visit to the West is 361 B.C. REPERIO: sc. in annalibus; so in 15; cf. videmus in 26.
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