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XLIV. Natus erat Agricola, Caio Caesare tertium consule, Idibus Juniis: excessit sexto et quinquagesimo anno, decimo Kalendas Septembris, Collega Priscoque consulibus. Quod si habitum quoque ejus posteri noscere velint, decentior quam sublimior fuit; nihil metus in vultu, gratia oris supererat bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter.
Personal appearance, cf. Decentior quam sublimior. Well proportioned, rather than tall. Nihil metus. Nothing to inspire fear in his countenance. Antith. to gratia supererat: kindness of expression rather prevailed. So Gr. and R. For this sense of metus, see note G. 2: ob metum. Medio aetatis. We should hardly say so of a man dying at 56. But in Dial. de Clar. Orat.
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