Selected Essays And the Satire On the Deification of Claudius
The book Selected Essays And the Satire On the Deification of Claudius was written by author Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D Here you can read free online of Selected Essays And the Satire On the Deification of Claudius book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Selected Essays And the Satire On the Deification of Claudius a good or bad book?
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Egone, etc.: Caesar speaks. — placui: have been deemed suitable (by Providence). — quid cuique . . . pronuntiat: i.e. Caesar is the mouthpiece of Fortune. — nulla pars: sc. orbis terrarum. — volente propitioque me : epithets familiar in forms of prayer to the gods. — pax mea : the poets of the Augustan age had celebrated the universal peace that was brought about by the imperial government, and even in burlesque {Apoc. x. 2) Augustus is made to mention that he had secured peace on land and sea.... But the majestic idea of the Pax Romana was becom- ing concrete almost in the same way with the term Imperium; cf. iv. 2. — funditus excidi: to be utterly destroyed. — regium decus: a crown. — mea iuris dictio: i.e. all these questions are under my jurisdiction. 3. iuvenilis impetus: an indirect caution. — non ipsa . . . gloria : not the pride of power shown by inspiring fears, which is dira, sed frequens, etc. ; one of the subjects of compulit. Later in life, Tacitus records, Nero was suspected of this very motive (Ann.
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