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XLII. Aderat jam annus, quo proconsulatum Asiae et Africae sortiretur, et occiso Civica nuper nec Agricolae consilium deerat, nec Domitiano exemplum.
"Don't see now you can make Latin prose much more cock-eye than it is, but we'll try," said Beetle, transposing an aliud and Asiae from two sentences. "Let's see! We'll put that full-stop a little further on, and begin the sentence with the next capital. Hurrah! Here's three lines that can move up all in a lump."
For public documents the chisel and the rock, for private the pen and the prepared skin, seem to have been preferred by them; and in the earlier times, at any rate, they employed no other materials. Media . . . quam ante regnum Cyri superlovis et incrementa Persidos legimus Asiae reginam totius. Amm. Marc, xxiii. 6. The origin of the Median nation is wrapt in a profound obscurity.
"Postquam res Asiae, Priamique evertere gentem, Immeritam visum superis." AENEIS, I. iii., line 1. Augustus, it is true, had once resolved to rebuild that city, and there to make the seat of the Empire; but Horace writes an ode on purpose to deter him from that thought, declaring the place to be accursed, and that the gods would as often destroy it as it should be raised.
Inclined to the worse measures, or it may be, to the worse advisers. In ipsam agebatur==invito gloria aucta, simulque pernicies accelerata. XLII. Asiae et Africae. He drew lots, which he should have, both being put into the lot. Proconsulatum. See H. 1, 49. note, on proconsul. A. had already been consul, 9. Sortiretur. In which he would, or such that he must, obtain by lot, etc. Cf.
There is sufficient reason to believe that Ur, the first capital, was a great maritime emporium; and if so, it can scarcely be doubted that to commerce and trade, at the least in part, the early development of Chaldaean greatness was owing. "Ager totius Asiae fertilissimus." PLIN. H. N. vi. 26.
The metaphor in lux is often used by Cicero, as Qu. Fr. 1, 1, 7 in luce Asiae, in oculis provinciae. NOTITIA: notitia is general knowledge, often merely the result of superficial observation; scientia is thorough knowledge, the result of elaboration and generalization.
Restitutae urbes Asiae: vindictae ab injuriis magistratuum provinciae. Honor dignis paratissimus: poena in malos sera, sed aliqua. Superatur aequitate gratia, ambitio virtute: nam facere recte cives suos, Princeps optimus faciendo docet; cumque sit imperio maximus, exemplo major est." Tiberius reigned from the year 14, to the year 37.
"Frugifera et ferta arva Asiae tenet." Let us therefore use the propriety of words of our own language, rather than the brilliancy of the Greeks; unless perchance we are ashamed of speaking in such a way as this "Quâ tempestate Paris Helenam," and the rest of that sentence. Let us, I say, pursue that plan and avoid harshness of sound. "Habeo istam ego perterricrepam.... Versutiloquas malitias."
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