Selections from Tacitus Annals I
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Selections from Tacitus Annals I

An Edition for Intermediate Students

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Selections from Tacitus Annals I

An Edition for Intermediate Students

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This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Tacitus' Annals I. Sections 3–7, 11–14, 16–30 and 46–49 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of the longer work and inspiring further study of it. A detailed introduction explains points of historical and stylistic interest. Annals I starts with the death of Augustus and the beginning of Tiberius' principate. Tacitus chronicles the uneasy and unprecedented transition from one to the other, in the context of a political elite shaken by years of civil war and unsure as to how best to protect their own interests and the stability Augustus had brought to Rome. With damning references to the servile nature of the new regime, Tacitus vividly paints scenes of confused senatorial debates, and Tiberius' own uncertainty over his own position and the best decisions to make. Opportunistic rebellions in the army are described with dramatic brilliance.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501350030
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia antigua romana

Vocabulary

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a, ab
by, from
abdo, abdere, abdidi, abditum
to hide away
abicio, abicere, abieci, abiectum
to throw away
abnuo -nuere -nui -nuitum
to refuse, deny
aboleo -olere -olevi -olitum
to wipe away
abscedo -cedere -cessi -cessum
to leave
abstrusus -a -um
secret, hard to fathom
absum, abesse, afui
to be away from
ac
and
accedo -cedere -cessi -cessum
to approach
accendo, accendere, accendi, accensum
to inflame (metaphorically – to enrage)
accido, accidere, accidi
to happen
accio, accire, accivi, accitum
to summon
accipio, accipere, accepi, acceptum
to receive
acer, acris, acre
sharp, keen
Actiacus -a -um
relating to the Battle of Actium
ad
to, towards, for the purpose of
adcelero -are
to hasten
adclamo -are
shout approval
adcresco -crescere -crevi -cretum
to grow, rise
adcurro -currere -curri -cursum
to run to
adcursus -us, m
onrush
additus -us, m
addition

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Text
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Text
  9. Commentary Notes
  10. Vocabulary
  11. Index of place names
  12. Index of members of the Imperial Household
  13. Index of other named Romans
  14. Copyright