C. Plini Caecili Secundi Epistularum liber sextus - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...put the cart before the horse. quae, 'since it.' tempore, 'the right time.' potuisset: the subject is oratio; the mood is subj. because this is what was thought and said by the objectors: what they actually said was potuit occurrere, and this, as reported by Pliny, becomes potuisset occ. 4. Iuventius Celsus, the younger of two famous jurists of this name, was praetor in this year, 106 or 107: he is mentioned first as one of the conspirators against Domitian in 96, and last as consul for the second time in 129. multis, 'at length': verbis is understood: paucis is often used with the same ellipse. contumeliis is probably dative: cf. ii, 6 § $ si gulae temperes: but the simple abl. is also found after temperare: Cicero would write a contumeliis. 5. e numero nostro, 'of our body,' i.e. senators; or it may mean the consulars of whom Pliny was one. diceret: the mood expresses repeated action in past time; Cicero would prefer the indicative. propitium Caesaretn etc.: their partisans cried out to the disputants, 'propitius tibi sit Caesar? 'may the emperor look with favour on you': cf. Mart. v 63, 5 faciat tibi sic bene Caesar: such cries seem to have been commonly addressed to drivers in the circus and gladiators in the amphitheatre; but Pliny objects to them in the senate-house. He mentions another occasion when, in consequence of the misconduct of some senators, the senate excanduit (burst into a rage) magnoque clamore ei qui scripsisset iratum principem est comprecatus (iv, 25 § 2). Both expressions show that the emperor was regarded as more divine than human. 6. illud. 'one thing': 'that' is too bald in English. alter alteri etc., 'each had information of what the other was intending': indicare, 'to inform,' is seldom used in the passive. Both men re...