Fōrmā fuit Augustus eximiā et per omnēs aetātis gradūs venustissimā. Erat tamen omnis lēnōciniī[7] neglegēns et in capite cōmendō tam incūriōsus, ut eō ipsō tempore, quō illud tōnsōribus committeret, aut legeret aliquid aut etiam scrīberet. { 201}
Paucīs annīs antequam morerētur, gravissimam in Germāniā accēpit clādem, tribus legiōnibus cum duce Vārō lēgātīsque et [[111]] auxiliīs omnibus caesīs. Hāc nūntiātā excubiās[1] per urbem { 204} indīxit, nē quis tumultus exsisteret, et māgnōs lūdōs Iovī optimō māximō vōvit, sī rēs pūblica in meliōrem statum vertisset. Adeō dēnique[2] cōnsternātum ferunt, ut, per continuōs mēnsēs barbā capillōque submissō,[3] caput interdum foribus inlīderet, vōciferāns: “Quīntilī Vāre, legiōnēs redde!” diemque clādis quotannīs maestum habuerit ac lūgubrem. { 210}
Tandem adflīctā valētūdine in Campāniam concessit, ubi, remissō ad ōtium animō, nūllō hilaritātis genere abstinuit. Suprēmō vītae diē petītō speculō[4] capillum sibi cōmī iussit et amīcōs circumstantēs percontātus ecquid iīs vidērētur mīmum[5] vītae commodē trānsēgisse, adiēcit solitam clausulam[6]: “Ēdite strepitum { 215} vōsque omnēs cum gaudiō applaudite.” Obiit Nōlae sextum et septuāgēsimum annum agēns.
103.12: See Vocab., _Hispānia_. 103.13: #studiīs vacābat#: ‘had time for (i.e. devoted himself to) study.’ 104.1: At Caesar’s death he was governor of Cisalpine Gaul. Antony carried a law allotting this province to himself, and then undertook to expel Brutus. 104.2: #plumbeīs lāminīs#: ‘leaden plates.’ 104.3: ‘arm.’ 104.4: ‘divers.’ 104.5: ‘by swimming across.’ 104.6: ‘doves.’ 104.7: ‘hunger.’ 104.8: ‘especially.’ 104.9: ‘(being) wounded.’ 104.10: = _amīcitiā_. 104.11: ‘cloak.’ 104.12: ‘hilt.’ 104.13: ‘hesitate.’ 105.1: ‘marks.’ 105.2: ‘of Salernum,’ a town in Campania; the modern Salerno. 105.3: ‘though tortured.’ 105.4: ‘by a back door.’ 105.5: ‘couch.’ 105.6: #Quantī . . . est#: ‘What marvelous manhood it shows.’ 105.7: A philosopher of the first century A.D. 105.8: ‘stripped of.’ 105.9: ‘to one or the other,’ i.e. to one, but not to both. 106.1: ‘he met,’ i.e. he answered. 106.2: ‘prisoners of war.’ Cf. _dēdere_, ‘to surrender.’ 106.3: Julius Caesar, like the later emperors, was deified after his death. 106.4: ‘sacrificial victims.’ 106.5: ‘slaughtered.’ 106.6: ‘pleasure.’ 106.7: #centiēs# (sc. _centēna mīlia_) #sēstertium# = ‘ten million sesterces,’ or about four hundred thousand dollars. Cf. p. 88, n. 8. 106.8: #māgnificam . . . Antōniō#: ‘under other circumstances truly splendid, but to Antony quite commonplace.’ 106.9: ‘course.’ 106.10: ‘vinegar.’ 106.11: ‘pearls.’ 106.12: ‘melts,’ ‘dissolves.’ 106.13: ‘throne.’ 106.14: ‘asp.’ 107.1: = _ostendit_. 107.2: ‘gentleness.’ 107.3: ‘the sixth,’ counting from March, with which, it is said, the Roman year originally began. 107.4: #Compos . . . meōrum#: ‘Now that I have gained my heart’s desire,’ which had been to avenge his uncle’s death. 107.5: ‘Nay.’ 107.6: #commissum īrī# is fut. infin. pass. of _committō_, and = ‘was sure to be (lit. was going to be) handed over,’ i.e. if he resigned. 108.1: ‘met.’ 108.2: ‘retinue.’ 108.3: ‘substitute.’ 108.4: ‘wounds.’ 108.5: ‘blushed.’ 108.6: ‘artisan.’ 108.7: ‘raven.’ 108.8: ‘Hail!’ 108.9: = _sēstertiōrum_. 108.10: = _dōnum_. 108.11: ‘parrot.’ 108.12: ‘cobbler.’ 108.13: ‘outlay.’ 108.14: ‘have come to naught.’ 108.15: ‘added’: lit., ‘wove in.’ 108.16: #quantī . . . ēmerat#: ‘at a higher price than he had paid before.’ 108.17: ‘offer.’ 109.1: ‘paper.’ 109.2: ‘scratched off,’ ‘wrote.’ 109.3: Examples of the historical infinitive, so called because it is especially common in historical writing. It is to be translated by an imperfect or perfect indicative. 109.4: = _et . . . et_. 109.5: ‘purse.’ 109.6: ‘francs.’ 109.7: ‘steward.’ 109.8: ‘whispered.’ 109.9: ‘eels.’ 109.10: ‘fish-pond.’ 109.11: ‘food.’ 109.12: ‘freed.’ 109.13: ‘night-owl.’ 109.14: = _sēstertiōs_. 110.1: ‘executioner,’ ‘butcher.’ 110.2: ‘size.’ 110.3: ‘style.’ 110.4: ‘furniture.’ 110.5: ‘granddaughters.’ 110.6: ‘made of brick.’ 110.7: ‘finery.’ 111.1: #excubiās . . . indīxit#: ‘ordered watches to be set.’ 111.2: Often used like our ‘to cut a long story short,’ ‘in short.’ 111.3: #barbā . . . submissō#: ‘letting his beard grow.’ 111.4: ‘mirror’ (of metal, generally bronze or silver). 111.5: ‘comedy.’ 111.6: ‘conclusion.’ Latin plays regularly close with an appeal of the actors to the spectators to grant them ‘loud and prolonged applause.’]