ISSUE: Summer 2006
Annals I.1 | To relate a few facts . . . without bitterness or partiality . . . |
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Annals I.81 | I can hardly venture any positive statement about the high elections. |
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Annals XIV.44 | In every great precedent, there is some injustice. |
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Annals V.10 | The renown of the name drew the ignorant. |
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Annals XIII.19 | Of all things human, the most precarious and passing is a reputation for power. |
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Annals XVI.18 | Indolence raised him to fame, as industry raises others. |
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Agricola 30 | Theft, slaughter, and plunder they give the false name of empire. |
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Annals III.59 | Such the lesson he first takes from his father’s counsels. |
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Annals IV.31 | His words escaped him with a seeming struggle. |
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Annals III.59 | Such is the training of the future ruler of the world. |
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Annals XIII.3 | The first emperor who needed another man’s eloquence. |
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Annals I.4 | He had the old inbred family arrogance. |
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Annals I.9 | Sensible men, however, spoke variously of his deeds with praise and censure. |
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Annals IV.1 | The daring wickedness by which he made plays for power. |
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Annals I.7 | Wishing to have had the credit of being called and elected by the State rather than slinking into power through intrigues. |
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Annals XII.64 | It was portended there were to be political changes for the worse. |
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Annals IV.62 | Then came a violent shock as the building fell inwards. |
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Annals XII.43 | As the panic spread, the weak were trodden down in the bustle and confusion. |
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Annals XV.59 | Even brave men are scared of sudden terrors. |
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Annals IV.64 | This disaster was not forgotten when a furious fire damaged the capital. |
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Annals V.3 | This was at the beginning of a grinding and unmitigated despotism. |
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Annals XV.53 | The emperor, who seldom went out and holed himself up in his house and gardens, used to adjourn for the entertainments of the circus. |
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Annals XIV.16 | He enjoyed the wrangles of opposing dogmatists. |
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Annals I.2 | He concentrated in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws. |
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Annals XIII.43 | We must punish the perpetrators of atrocious acts. |
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Annals IV.11 | Every circumstance was scrutinized and exaggerated. |
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Annals XIV.20 | The nobles were disgracing themselves on public stages, pretending to be orators and poets. |
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Annals IV.74 | Terror at home had filled their hearts. |
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Annals I.6 | The checkbook of empire, he said, can only be balanced by one person. |
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Annals VI.28 | All this is full of doubt and legendary hyperbole. |
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Annals III.65 | How ready these men are to be slaves. |
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Annals III.6 | Let them go back to their usual pursuits. |
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Annals IV.30 | Better, he held, to undermine the constitution than depose its guardians. |
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Annals I.34 | He was heard in silence, or with but a slight murmur. |
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Annals V.3 | Now they threw off the reins, so to speak, and loosed their fury. |
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Annals IV.72 | They sought a remedy in war. |
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Annals XIII.8 | All this however was related with exaggeration to the Senate. |
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Annals XV.53 | Lust for dominion is the most flagrant of the passions. |
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Annals III.46 | There was then a deafening cheer. |
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Annals I.72 | He had revived the law of treason. |
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Annals I.75 | This, though it promoted justice, ruined liberty. |
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Annals IV.69 | They applied their ears to cracks and crevices. |
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Annals III.40 | It was, they said, a great opportunity for the recovery of freedom. |
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Annals II.72 | This was spoken openly, other words were whispered. |
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Annals IV.18 | All this the emperor regarded as subverting his own power. |
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Annals XIV.44 | Granted that he hid his purpose. |
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Annals II.87 | Speech was restricted and perilous. |
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Annals III.65 | So corrupted indeed and debased was that time by sycophancy. |
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Annals III.28 | Over all hung a terror. |
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Annals VI.17 | Thereafter followed a scarcity of money. |
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Agricola 29 | In his grief he discovered one source of relief in war. |
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Annals XII.9 | It was then resolved to delay no more. |
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Annals I.49 | Uproar, wounds, bloodshed were everywhere visible. |
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Annals I.51 | Go forward, he said, and hurry your guilt into glory. |
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Annals II.18 | From nine A.M. to night the enemy were slaughtered. |
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Annals III.39 | Half-armed stragglers were cut down without bloodshed to our side. |
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Agricola 30 | They make a wasteland and they call it peace. |
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Annals XII.7 | There was a hardness and general arrogance in public. |
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Annals III.44 | All good folk were saddened by anxiety for the country. |
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Annals IV.36 | Only the insignificant and unimportant were punished. |
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Annals XII.13 | Having crossed the Tigris they roamed over the country. |
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Annals XII.39 | Now began a series of engagements, for the most part raids. |
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Annals XII.17 | Deciding that they should die by the just doom of war. |
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Annals XII.39 | Encounters due to chance or courage, carelessness or calculation. |
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Annals XII.39 | Under orders of officers, or at times without their knowledge. |
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Annals XIV.26 | Having harried by fire and sword all whom he thought were against us. |
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Annals XIV.23 | He was incessantly attacked by that tribe skilled in guerrilla warfare. |
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Agricola 15 | The miserable have more vehemence and greater resolve. |
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Annals XIII.2 | And now they went on to further murders. |
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Annals III.74 | Less than us in military might, but equal in a war of surprises. |
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Annals III.28 | Then followed two decades of continuous strife. |
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Annals III.71 | Next came a religious question. |
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Annals XI.18 | None were to fall out of line. |
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Annals II.30 | There were other interrogations of the same sort, inane and idle. |
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Annals XIII.44 | Then, as is usual in lovers’ spats: harsh words, oaths, reproaches, and excuses. |
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Annals II.47 | That same year twelve famous cities across Asia fell by an earthquake. |
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Annals XIV.29 | A horrific disaster was sustained in Britain. |
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Annals XVI.13 | A year of shame and so many evil deeds heaven also marked by hurricanes and pestilence. |
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Annals IV.74 | The emperor kept our losses a secret. |
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Annals II.5 | Meanwhile, the scuffle in the East was rather pleasing. |
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Agricola 20 | Peace had become as much dreaded as war. |
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Annals XIV.35 | But heaven is on the side of a righteous revenge. |
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Histories IV.17 | The gods favor the stronger. |
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Agricola 24 | I have often heard him say that a single legion and a few auxiliaries could take and occupy Ireland. |
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Annals III.44 | Even war is a good trade for a wretched peace. |
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Annals II.50 | Meantime the law of treason was gaining momentum. |
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Annals XII.7 | It was a tough and, so to speak, macho despotism. |
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Histories III.20 | A leader properly leads by forethought, by counsel, and by delay more than temerity. |
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Annals XI.24 | These and similar arguments failed to sway the emperor. |
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Annals XI.28 | The emperor’s advisors indeed shuddered. |
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Annals I.3 | How few remained who had seen the Republic! |
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Annals IV.31 | Little joy interrupted this long litany of horrors. |
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Annals II.26 | He had now had enough of success and disaster. |
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Annals VI.17 | Rigor at the outset becoming negligence at the end. |
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Annals IV.9 | He fell back on those idle and oft-ridiculed promises of restoring the Republic. |
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Agricola 9 | Public opinion is not always mistaken. |
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Annals I.40 | Abundant and more than abundant blunders, they said. |
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Annals III.34 | You must not check vices abroad without recalling the scandals of the capital. |
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Agricola 2 | We should have lost memories as we lost our voices, were it as easy to forget as to keep silent. |
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Annals XI.27 | I do but record what I have heard. |