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Ann. 14, 32. His. 4, 68. Habuerunt exemplorum. Had room for exertion and so for setting a good example, cf. Ann. 13, 8: videbaturque locus virtutibus patefactus. The position of habuerunt is emphatic, as if he had said: then had virtues, etc. See Rit. in loc. Communicabat, sc. cum A. Ex eventu, from the event, i.e. in consequence of his success. In suam famam. Cf. in jactationem, 5, note.
Aciem firmarent==aciem firmam facerent, of which use there are examples not only in T., but in Liv. Dr. Affunderentur. Were attached to. Pro vallo. On the rampart; properly on the fore part of it. Cf. note, H. 1, 29. Ingens decus. In app. with legiones stetere. Bellanti, sc. Agricolae. Al. bellandi. In speciem. Cf. in suam famam, 8, and in jactationem, 5. Aequo.
Saepe implies, that sometimes they made a knot elsewhere, but often they fasten it there, and there only. See Or. in loc. This whole passage illustrates our author's disposition to avoid technical language. Cf. note, II. 2, 21. Innoxiae. Harmless, unlike the beauty cultivated among the Romans to dazzle and seduce. In altitudinem, etc. Cf. note, A, 5: in jactationem; A. 7: in suam famam.
G. 30: praeponere, etc. note. Here supply from retulit in the preceding number the idea: he made it his business or aim to know, etc. The author's fondness for antithesis is very observable in the several successive pairs here: noscere nosci; discere sequi; appetere recusare; anxius intentus. In jactationem. Al. jactatione.
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