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Updated: June 28, 2025
All present agreed, with the exception of Fabius Aper, who proposed that Nominatus should be disbarred for the term of five years, and he continued firmly in that opinion though he drew no one over to side with him.
"What?" retorted Mesembrius; "because you lie, Aper, when you say that Numerian issues his orders through you." "What? What do you mean?" shouted the soldiers who had gathered around the two. "I mean that Numerian is no longer living!" cried Mesembrius in ringing tones.
One phrase dropped by Aper, the apologist of the modern school, is of special interest as coming from the future historian; among the faults of the Ciceronian oratory is mentioned a languor and heaviness in narration tarda et iners structura in morem annalium. It is just this quality in historical composition that Tacitus set himself sedulously to conquer.
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