Book 6, Chapter 15

Videsne quanta copia virorum maximorum sit, quos a The Latin expression is reminiscent of Virgil, Aeneid, ix. 641 sq: Macte nova virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra, dis genite et geniture deos. b An allusion to the later apotheosis of Augustus. c Germanicus, his nephew. d Drusus, who was poisoned by Sejanus, the imperial favourite, in A.D. 23. (Tacitus, Annals, iv. 8.) e i. e. ,the emperor in his capacity of Pontifex Maximus. f A veiled allusion to the spectacular overthrow of Sejanus himself, eight years later. non excepit hic omnia prosternens casus, et in quos tot animi bona, tot ornamenta publice privatimque congesta erant ? Sed videlicet it in orbem ista tempestas et sine dilectu vastat omnia agitque ut sua. Iube singulos conferre rationem ; nulli contigit im- pune nasci.