Chapter III: Preface: By the Translator (3)

|OL.|A.D.|A.U.C.|X
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| | 14| 767|Death of Augustus, August 19th.
| | | |
| | | |Accession of Tiberius, anno ætat. 55.
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| | 16| 769|Rise of Sejanus. Cf. A.D. 31. Tac. Ann. vi. 8.
| | | |
| | 18| 771|Death of Ovid and Livy. Strabo still writing.
| | | |
| | 19| 772|Death of Germanicus. Jews banished from Italy (alluded
| | | |to, Sat. iii. 14; vi. 543).
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|200| 21| 774|Tiberius, on the plea of ill health, goes in the spring
| | | |into Campania.
| | | |
| | 23| 776|Influence of Sejanus. Cf. Tac. Ann. iv. 6.
| | | |
| | | |(Vid. Niebuhr's Lectures, vol. iii. p. 181.)
| | | |
| | 24| 777|Cassius Severus, an exile in Seriphos. Tac. Ann. iv. 21.
| | | |
| | | |«Cf. Sat. i. 73; vi. 563, 564; x. 170; xiii. 246.»
| | | |
| | | |C. Plinius Secundus, of Verona, born.
| | | |
| | 26| 779|Consulship of Cn. Lentulus Gætulicus. (Cf. ad viii. 26.)
| | | |
| | 27| 780|Tiberius retires to Capreæ. Tac. Ann. iv. 67. Sat. x.
| | | |90-95, and 72.
| | | |
| | 28| 781|Agrippina, daughter of Germanicus, married to Domitius.
| | | |«Nero is the issue of this marriage, born A.D. 37.»
| | | |Sat. viii. 228; vi. 615.
| | | |
|202| 29| 782|Death of Livia, mother of Tiberius.
| | | |
| | | |(Cf. Niebuhr's Lectures, vol. iii. p. 180.)
| | | |
| | 31| 784|Tiberius consul with Sejanus. Suet. Tib. 26, 65.
| | | |
| | | |Fall of Sejanus, Oct. 18. He had been in favor now 16
| | | |years. The day of his death was consecrated to Jove.
| | | |Sat. x. 56-107. Cf. Tac. Ann. vi. 25.
| | | |
| | 32| 785|Birth of Otho.
| | | |
| | 34| 787|A. Persius Flaccus, born at Volaterræ in Etruria.
| | | |
| | 36| 789|Death of Thrasyllus. Sat. vi. 576.
| | | |
| | | |«Cf. Fast. Hellen. iii. p. 277.»
| | | |
|204| 37| 790|Death of Tiberius, in March.
| | | |
| | | |Caligula succeeds, a. æt. 25.
| | | |
| | | |Birth of Nero in December. He and Caligula were both
| | | |born at Antium.
| | | |
| | 38| 791|Potion of Cæsonia? Sat. vi. 616, _seq._
| | | |
| | | |«Birth of Josephus, the historian.»
| | | |
| | 39| 792|Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, deposed and
| | | |banished by Caligula, and his dominions given to
| | | |Agrippa the father of Agrippa, Berenice, and Drusilla.
| | | |Sat. vi. 156.
| | | |
| | 40| 793|Caligula at Lyons, on his way to the ocean, institutes
| | | |the "Certamen Græcæ Latinæque facundiæ." Suet. Calig.
| | | |20. Sat. i. 44, "Aut Lugdunensem Rhetor dicturus ad
| | | |aram." Cf. xv. 111. Pers. Sat. vi. 43.
| | | |
| | | |«M. Annæus Lucanus brought to Rome in his eighth month.»
| | | |
|205| 41| 794|Caligula slain, Jan. 24. Claudius succeeds, a. æt. 50.
| | | |
| | | |Birth of Titus, Dec. 30. «Exile of Seneca.»
| | | |
| | | |Agrippa receives from Claudius Judæa and Samaria.
| | | |
| | 42| 795|Deaths of Pætus and Arria.
| | | |
| | 43| 796|First campaign of A. Plautius in Britain.
| | | |
| | | |Influence of Narcissus (Suet. Claud. 28; Dio, lx. p.
| | | |688. Sat. xiv. 329, "Divitiæ Narcissi Indulsit Cæsar
| | | |cui Claudius omnia"), and of Posides. Suet. _u. s._
| | | |Sat. xiv. 91. «Birth of Martial.»
| | | |
| | 44| 797|«Death of Agrippa, Cf. Acts xii. 21-23.»
| | | |
|206| 45| 798|«His son Agrippa at Rome intercedes for the Jews.»
| | | |
| | 46| 799|Excesses of Messalina. Sat. vi. 114-132.
| | | |
| | 48| 801|Death of Messalina (and C. Silius, whom she had openly
| | | |married), Tac. Ann. xi. 26; Suet. Claud. 26, 36, 39,
| | | |through the influence of Narcissus. Sat. xiv. 331; x.
| | | |329-345.
| | | |
| | | |Pallas the Arcadian, Claudius' freedman and secretary.
| | | |Sat. i. 109. Cf. an. 62.
| | | |
| | | |The younger Agrippa succeeds his uncle Herod.
| | | |
| | | |Remmius Palæmon, the grammarian, Quintilian's
| | | |master, flourishes. Suet. clar. Gram. 23. Sat. vi.
| | | |451, "Volvitque Palæmonis artem;" vii. 215, "docti
| | | |Palæmonis;" and l. 219.
| | | |
|207| 49| 802|Marriage of Claudius and Agrippina (widow of Domitius,
| | | |cf. an. 28). Seneca, through Agrippina's influence,
| | | |recalled from exile. (Cf. A.D. 41. Schol. ad Sat. v.
| | | |109.) Tac. Ann. xii. 8.
| | | |
| | | |Nero (a. æt. 11) placed under Seneca's care. Suet. Ner.
| | | |7.
| | | |
| | 50| 803|Eighth campaign in Britain under Ostorius. Caractacus
| | | |captured. «Persius places himself under Cornutus' care.
| | | |Pers. v. 36.»
| | | |
| | 51| 804|Birth of Domitian, while his father is consul suffectus.
| | | |
| | | |Nero receives the Toga Virilis.
| | | |
| | 52| 805|Felix, brother of Pallas, made procurator of Judæa.
| | | |
|208| 53| 806|Nero marries Octavia.
| | | |
| | | |Agrippa the younger appointed to Philip's tetrarchy,
| | | |and Trachonitis, and Abilene.
| | | |
| | 54| 807|Claudius poisoned by Agrippina's mushroom. Sat. v. 147,
| | | |"Boletum domino: sed qualem Claudius edit, Ante illum
| | | |uxoris post quem nil amplius edit." (Cf. Mart. Ep.
| | | |xiii. 48; I. xxi. 4.) Sat. vi. 620, "Minus ergo nocens
| | | |erit Agrippinæ Boletus." The poison was procured from
| | | |Locusta. Sat. i. 71, 72.
| | | |
| | | |Nero succeeds, Oct. 13, a. æt. 17.
| | | |
| | | |Domitius Corbulo appointed to Armenia. Sat. iii. 251,
| | | |"Corbulo vix ferret tot vasa ingentia." Cf. Tac. Ann.
| | | |xiii. 8.
| | | |
| | 55| 808|Death of Britannicus, who is poisoned by Nero, through
| | | |the agency of Locusta.
| | | |
| | 58| 811|Successful campaign of Corbulo in Armenia. Cf. Sat.
| | | |viii. Sabina Poppæa. Sat. vi. 462. Her husband Otho
| | | |sent into Lusitania, where he remains ten years. Cf.
| | | |Tac. Ann. xiii. 45.
| | | |
| | | |The Parthian war is perhaps alluded to in Persius, Sat.
| | | |v. 4. Vid. D'Achaintre in loc.
| | | |
| | 59| 812|Death of Agrippina (Tac. Ann. xiv. 4; Suet. Ner. 34),
| | | |during the Quinquatrus (xiv.-x. Kal. April). Sat. viii.
| | | |215.
| | | |
| | | |Consulship of L. Fonteius Capito. (Cf. an. 118.) Sat.
| | | |xiii. 17, "Fonteio Consule natus."
| | | |
| | 60| 813|Institution of the Neronia. "Certamen triplex
| | | |Quinquennale: Musicum, Gymnicum, Equestre."
| | | |
| | | |Corbulo's successful campaign in Syria.
| | | |
|210| 61| 814|Boadicea's victory. Victory of Suetonius Paulinus.
| | | |
| | | |Galba in Spain. «Birth of Pliny the younger, a few
| | | |years after Tacitus.»
| | | |
| | 62| 815|Death of Burrus.
| | | |
| | | |Sofonius Tigellinus succeeds as "Præfectus Cohortibus
| | | |Prætoriis." Cf. Tac. Ann. xiv. 57; xv. 37, 72. Sat. i.
| | | |155, "Pone Tigellinum," etc.
| | | |
| | | |Nero marries Poppæa. Death of Octavia. Tac. Ann. xiv.
| | | |60, 64.
| | | |
| | | |Pallas put to death for his money. Tac. Ann. xiv. 65.
| | | |Cf. A.D. 48.
| | | |
| | | |Death of Persius, in his 28th year.
| | | |
| | 64| 817|Nero in the theatre. Fires at Rome. Only four regions
| | | |remaining entire. Tac. Ann. xv. 40. Persecution of
| | | |Christians (c. 44), on whom the blame of the fire was
| | | |laid, and who were punished with the "Tunica Molesta."
| | | |Sat. i. 156; viii. 235. Suet. Ner. 16.
| | | |
|211| 65| 818|Piso's conspiracy. Death of Seneca. Tac. Ann. xv. 60.
| | | |Sat. viii. 211, "Libera si dentur populo suffragia,
| | | |quis tam Perditus ut dubitet Senecam præferre Neroni."
| | | |Sat. x. 15, "Temporibus diris igitur jussuque Neronis
| | | |Longinum, et magnos Senecæ prædivitis hortos clausit,"
| | | |_et seq._
| | | |
| | | |Death of Lucan, in his 26th year. Sat. vii. 79. Tac.
| | | |Ann. xv. 70. Suet. Ner. 35.
| | | |
| | | |Death of Poppæa. Tac. Ann. xvi. 6. Sat. viii. 218, "Sed
| | | |nec Electræ jugulo se polluit, aut Spartani Sanguine
| | | |conjugii."
| | | |
| | 66| 819|Death of Thrasea Pætus. Tac. Ann. xvi. 21-35.
| | | |
| | | |Martial comes to Rome, æt. 23.
| | | |
| | | |Nero sets out for Greece: meets Vatinius ("Sutrinæ
| | | |tabernæ alumnus," Tac. Ann. xv. 34) at Beneventum. Sat.
| | | |v. 47, "Tu Beneventani Sutoris nomen habentem Siccabis
| | | |calicem nasorum quatuor."
| | | |
| | | |Lubinus places the banishment of Annæus Cornutus in
| | | |this year. Cf. ad Pers. v. 5.
| | | |
| | 67| 820|Death of Corbulo.
| | | |
| | | |Nero in Greece, celebrates the 211th Olympiad (the
| | | |Olympiad having been deferred for him, Suet. Ner.
| | | |19-22), and adds a musical contest. Sat. viii. 225,
| | | |"Gaudentis fœdo peregrina ad pulpita cantu Prostitui,
| | | |Graiæque apium meruisse coronæ."
| | | |
| | | |«Jewish war committed by Nero to Vespasian.»
| | | |
| | 68| 821|Nero returns to Rome. Sat. viii. 230, "Et de marmoreo
| | | |citharam suspende Colosso."
| | | |
| | | |Vindex revolts and proclaims Galba. Ib. 221, "Quid enim
| | | |Verginius armis Debeat ulcisci magis aut cum Vindice
| | | |Galba."
| | | |
| | | |Galba accepts the empire in April.
| | | |
| | | |Death of Nero in June, in his 31st year.
| | | |
| | | |«Quintilian comes to Rome with Galba, and remains 20
| | | |years.»
| | | |
|212| 69| 822|Vitellius proclaimed, Jan. 2. Tac. Hist. i. 56, 57.
| | | |
| | | |Galba killed, Jan. 15, in his 73d year. Sat. vi. 559,
| | | |"Magnus civis obit et formidatus Othoni."
| | | |
| | | |Otho acknowledged. Battle of Bedriacum. Death of Otho
| | | |at Brixellum in April, in his 37th year. Sat. ii. 106,
| | | |"Bedriaci in campo spolium affectare Palati."
| | | |
| | | |Vitellius enters Rome in July, and is killed Dec. 21.
| | | |
| | | |Vespasian proclaimed July 1st, æt. 60.
| | | |
| | 70| 823|Vespasian enters Rome. Titus takes Jerusalem.
| | | |
| | 71| 824|Triumph of Titus and Vespasian. They passed through the
| | | |"Porta Idumæa." Sat. viii. 160.
| | | |
| | | |Temple of Peace begun. Sat. ix. 22; i. 115.
| | | |
| | | |Temple of Janus closed for the sixth time.
| | | |
| | 72| 825|Commagene reduced to a province. Sat. vi. 550,
| | | |"Commagenus Aruspex."
| | | |
| | 74| 827|Expulsion of Philosophers by Vespasian.
| | | |
| | 75| 828|Temple of Peace concluded. Suet. Vesp. 9.
| | | |
| | 76| 829|Birth of Hadrian. Cf. A.D. 138.
| | | |
| | 78| 831|Agricola in Britain. Tac. Agric. xviii. Sat. ii. 160.
| | | |
| | 79| 832|Death of Vespasian, June 23, in his 70th year.
| | | |
| | | |Titus succeeds. «Eruption of Vesuvius. Death of Pliny
| | | |the elder. Cf. Plin. vi. Epist. 16, 20.»
| | | |
| | 80| 833|Fire at Rome. Temple of Isis, and Capitol, burnt.
| | | |
|215| 81| 834|Death of Titus, Sept. 13.
| | | |
| | | |Domitian succeeds. Sat. iv. 37, "Flavius Ultimus, et
| | | |calvo serviret Roma Neroni."
| | | |
| | 82| 835|Domitian rebuilds the Capitol (Suet. Dom. 5), and
| | | |patronizes learning. Sat. vii. 1, "Et spes, et ratio
| | | |studiorum in Cæsare tantum."
| | | |
| | 83| 836|Domitian's expedition against the Catti and Sarmatæ.
| | | |
| | | |Three Vestal virgins punished. Sat. iv. 10, "Sanguine
| | | |adhuc vivo terram subitura Sacerdos."
| | | |
| | 84| 837|Domitian takes the name of "Germanicus." Receives the
| | | |censorship for life. Sat. iv. 12; ii. 121.
| | | |
| | | |Defeat of Galgacus in Britain. Sat. ii. 160, 161,
| | | |"Domitianus nobiles multos relegavit et optimates
| | | |occidit." Chron. Euseb. Cf. Sat. iv. 151, _seq._
| | | |
| | 86| 839|Domitian institutes the Capitoline Games. Suet. Dom.
| | | |4, "Certamen quinquennale triplex, Musicum, Equestre,
| | | |Gymnicum." «Cf. A.D. 60.» Sat. vi. 387, "An Capitolinam
| | | |deberet Pollio quercum Sperare et fidibus promittere."
| | | |Cf. ad Sulpic. 41.
| | | |
| | | |Dacian war. Sat. iv. 111, cum Schol.
| | | |
| | | |«Birth of Antoninus Pius.»
| | | |
|217| 89| 842|Quintilian teaches at Rome ("Publicam Scholam et
| | | |Salarium è fisco accepit," Hieron.), Domitian's
| | | |nephews, among others. Some think Juvenal attended his
| | | |lectures. Sat. vi. 75, 280; vii. 186, 189.
| | | |
| | 90| 843|Domitian expels the philosophers (cf. A.D. 74). Tac.
| | | |Agr. 2. (Sat. iii. may perhaps refer to this, "omni
| | | |bonâ arte in exsilium actâ," cf. l. 21.)
| | | |
| | | |Senecio put to death for writing a book in praise of
| | | |Helvidius Priscus. Cf. Sat. v. 36.
| | | |
| | | |Sulpicia's Satire. «Pliny prætor in his 29th year.»
| | | |
| | 91| 844|Domitian's triumphs over Dacians and Germans. «Sat. vi.
| | | |205, "Dacicus et scripto radiat Germanicus auro:" but
| | | |cf. A.D. 110.»
| | | |
| | | |Cornelia, a Vestal virgin, buried alive. (Vid. Suet.
| | | |Dom. 8. Plin. iv. Ep. 11. Cf. A.D. 83.) This happened
| | | |after the death of Julia. Sat. ii. 32.
| | | |
|218| 98| 846|Sarmatian war. (Sat. ii. 1.) Death of Agricola.
| | | |
| | | |Massa and Carus (i. 35, 36) referred by some to this
| | | |date.
| | | |
| | | |Influence of Paris. Sat. vi. 87, "Ludos Paridemque
| | | |reliquit." Sat. vii. 87, "Paridi nisi vendat Agaven;"
| | | |and 90, _seq._
| | | |
| | | |Palfurius Sura, Armillatus, Pegasus, Vibius Crispus
| | | |Placentinus, Acilius Glabrio, Fabricius Veiento,
| | | |Catullus Messalinus, Curtius Montanus, and Crispinus
| | | |flourish. Sat. iv. 50-150; vi. 82; i. 26; xi. 34.
| | | |
| | 94| 847|Lateranus consul. viii. 146, _seq._, "Prætor majorum
| | | |cineres atque ossa volucri Carpento rapitur pinguis
| | | |_Damasippus_, et ipse, Ipse rotam stringit multo
| | | |sufflamine consul;" where some read "Lateranus;" others
| | | |say Lateranus is intended by Damasippus.
| | | |
| | | |This is probably the date of the event recorded in Sat.
| | | |iv., "Illa tempora sævitiæ claras quibus abstulit Urbi
| | | |Illustresque animas impune et vindice nullo," l. 151.
| | | |Cf. Tac. Agric. 44, who says that after the death of
| | | |Agricola (A.D. 93) "Domitianus non jam per intervalla
| | | |ac spiramenta temporum sed continuo et velut uno ictu
| | | |Rempublicam exhausit," _et seq._
| | | |
| | 95| 848|Death of Clemens, the consul.
| | | |
| | | |«Persecution of Christians. St. John at Patmos.»
| | | |
| | | |Flavia Domitilla exiled to _Pontia_. «Cf. xiii. 246,
| | | |"Aut maris Ægæi rupem, scopulosque frequentes Exulibus
| | | |magnis."»
| | | |
| | | |The fourth book of the Sylvæ of Statius written.
| | | |
| | | |In the third book written A.D. 94, he mentions the
| | | |close of the Thebais. Cf. Sat. vii. 82, "Curritur ad
| | | |vocem jucundam et carmen amicæ Thebaidos, lætam fecit
| | | |quum Statius Urbem Promisitque diem."
| | | |
| | | |The Thebaid had employed twelve years.
| | | |
| | 96| 849|Domitian killed in September, in his 45th year. Sat.
| | | |iv. 153, "Sed periit postquam cerdonibus esse timendus
| | | |Cœperat, hoc nocuit Lamiarum cæde madenti."
| | | |
| | | |Nerva succeeds.
| | | |
|219| 97| 850|Nerva adopts Trajan. «Tacitus "Consul Suffectus."»
| | | |
| | 98| 851|Death of Nerva, Jan. 25th, in his 63d year.
| | | |
| | | |Trajan (then at Cologne) succeeds.
| | | |
| | | |«Plutarch flourishes. Pliny, Præf. Ærarii Saturni.»
| | | |
| | 99| 852|Trajan enters Rome.
| | | |
| | | |«Martial, 10th book, 2d edition. Silius Italicus still
| | | |living.»
| | | |
| | 100| 853|Consulship of M. Cornelius Fronto with Trajan. Sat. i.
| | | |12, "Frontonis platani, convulsaque marmora clamant
| | | |Semper et assiduo ruptæ lectore columnæ."
| | | |
| | | |Pliny and Tacitus impeach Marius Priscus, proconsul of
| | | |Africa. Fronto Catius defends him. Cf. Plin. ii. Epist.
| | | |xi. The case was tried before Trajan in person. Cf.
| | | |Sat. i. 47, "Et hic damnatus inani Judicio; quid enim
| | | |salvis infamia nummis? Exul ab octavâ Marius bibit, et
| | | |fruitur Diis iratis." And viii. 120, "Quum tenues nuper
| | | |Marius discinxerit Afros."
| | | |
| | | |Pliny's Panegyric, in his consulship.
| | | |
| | | |Death of S. John.
| | | |
| | | |«Martial returns to Bilbilis. Twelfth book of Epigrams.»
| | | |
|220| 101| 854|First Dacian war. "Trajanus primus aut solus etiam
| | | |vires Romanas trans _Istrum_ propagavit," Victor, p.
| | | |319; perhaps alluded to, Sat. viii. 169, "Syriæque
| | | |tuendis Amnibus et Rheno atque _Istro_."
| | | |
| | | |Isæus flourishes. "Magna Isæum fama præcesserat: major
| | | |inventus est. Summa est facultas, copia, ubertas."
| | | |Plin. ii. Epist. 3. Cf. Sat. iii. 73 (with the
| | | |Scholiasts), "Sermo promptus et Isæo torrentior."
| | | |
| | 103| 856|Victories in Dacia. Peace granted to Decebalus.
| | | |
| | | |Trajan triumphs, and takes the name of "Dacicus." (Cf.
| | | |110.) «Pliny arrives at Bithynia.»
| | | |
| | 104| 857|Second Dacian war. Trajan takes the command.
| | | |
| | | |Hadrian serves. "Primæ legioni Minerviæ præpositus."
| | | |Spartian. Hadr. 3.
| | | |
| | | |«Martial sends his 12th book to Rome. Vid. Ep. 18.
| | | |Pliny's letter about the Christians.»
| | | |
|221| 105| 858|Stone bridge over the Danube, by which Trajan conquers
| | | |the Dacians.
| | | |
| | 106| 859|Death of Decebalus. Dacia becomes a Roman province.
| | | |
| | | |Conquest of Arabia Petræa. 2d triumph of Trajan.
| | | |
| | 107| 860|Trajan's public works. Vid. Dio, lxviii. 15, τά τε
| | | |ἕλη τὰ Πόντινα ὡδοποίησε λίθῳ. κ. τ. λ. Cf. iii. 307,
| | | |"Armato quoties tutæ custode tenentur Et _Pomptina_
| | | |palus et Gallinaria pinus."
| | | |
| | 110| 863|This road is finished. «Plutarch's Lives.»
| | | |
| | | |The _coins_ of Trajan of this year bear the words,
| | | |"GERMANICUS, DACICUS." vi. 205, "_Dacicus_, et scripto
| | | |radiat _Germanicus_ auro."
| | | |
| | 112| 865|Hadrian Archon at Athens.
| | | |
|223| 113| 866|The column of Trajan erected (cf. Dio, lxviii. 16), to
| | | |which some think there is an allusion in the line, x.
| | | |136, "Summo tristis captivus in arcu."
| | | |
| | 114| 867|Trajan's expedition to the East, against the Armenians
| | | |and Parthians. He proceeds in the autumn through Athens
| | | |and Seleucia to Antioch.
| | | |
| | 115| 868|Earthquake at Antioch, in January or February, in which
| | | |the consul, M. Vergilianus Pedo, perished. Dio, lxviii.
| | | |24, 25.
| | | |
| | | |In the spring Trajan marches to Armenia. Sat. vi. 411,
| | | |"Nutare urbes, subsidere terram."
| | | |
| | | |«Martyrdom of S. Ignatius.»
| | | |
| | 116| 869|Trajan enters Ctesiphon, and takes the title of
| | | |"Parthicus." Sat. vi. 407, "Instantem regi Armenio
| | | |Parthoque."
| | | |
|224| 117| 870|Trajan reaches Selinus in Cilicia, and dies in August,
| | | |in his 63d year.
| | | |
| | | |Hadrian, at Antioch, succeeds, in consequence of a
| | | |fictitious adoption managed by Plotina. Cf. Gibbon,
| | | |vol. i. p. 130. To this there is supposed to be
| | | |an allusion in Sat. i. 40, "Optima summi Nunc via
| | | |processus vetulæ vesica beatæ."
| | | |
| | 118| 871|Hadrian comes to Rome.
| | | |
| | | |This is sixty years after the consulship of Fonteius.
| | | |Cf. A.D. 59. The thirteenth Satire was therefore
| | | |probably written this year. l. 17, "Stupet hæc qui jam
| | | |post terga reliquit Sexaginta annos, Fonteio consule
| | | |natus." The common story is, that Calvinus, to whom
| | | |this Satire is addressed, was _three years_ Juvenal's
| | | |senior.
| | | |
| | | |Probably the lines in Satire iii., from 60-113, are
| | | |an interpolation at a period subsequent to the first
| | | |composition of the Satire, and refer to this period.
| | | |Hadrian brought with him from _Antioch_ to Rome many
| | | |foreigners of all professions. Cf. iii. 62, "Jampridem
| | | |Syrus in Tiberim defluxit _Orontes_." Among these
| | | |he particularly favored Epictetus of Hierapolis in
| | | |Phrygia, Favorinus of Arelate in Gaul, and Dionysius
| | | |of Miletus. To one of these Juvenal may refer in
| | | |Sat. iii. 75, "Quemvis hominem secum attulit ad nos
| | | |Grammaticus, Rhetor, Geometres, Pictor, Aliptes, Augur,
| | | |Schœnobates, Medicus, Magus, omnia novit, Ad summum
| | | |non Maurus erat nec Sarmata nec Thrax," _et seq._
| | | |Cf. Spartian. Hadrian, c. 5, and especially c. 16,
| | | |where he says, "In summâ familiaritate Epictetum et
| | | |Heliodorum, philosophos, et _grammaticos, Rhetores_,
| | | |musicos, _Geometras, pictores_, astrologos habuit:
| | | |præ cæteris eminente Favorino," where the order is
| | | |rather remarkable. Dionysius of Miletus, moreover,
| | | |was a disciple of Isæus (cf. A.D. 101), l. 73,
| | | |"Ingenium velox audacia perdita, sermo Promptus et Isæo
| | | |torrentior."
| | | |
| | | |Hadrian, after a four months' consulship, proceeded to
| | | |Campania, and thence to Gaul, Germany, and Britain:
| | | |Juvenal therefore might safely publish this in the
| | | |emperor's absence.
| | | |
| | 119| 872|Hadrian consul with Junius Rusticus.
| | | |
| | | |This is most probably the Junius mentioned Sat. xv.
| | | |27, "Nuper Consule Junio gesta." Cf. Salmas., Plin.
| | | |Exercit. p. 320.
| | | |
| | 120| 873|Hadrian's progress through the provinces.
| | | |
| | | |He builds the wall in Britain: "Compositis in Britanniâ
| | | |rebus, transgressus in Galliam." Spartian. c. 10. This
| | | |may be alluded to, Sat. ii. 160, 161. Cf. Sat. xv. 111.
| | | |
| | | |«Plutarch, æt. 74.»
| | | |
|225| 121| 874|Birth of M. Aurelius.
| | | |
| | 122| 875|Hadrian at Athens.
| | | |
| | | |Artemidorus Capito, the physician, in great repute with
| | | |Hadrian. It is not impossible that he may be alluded to
| | | |under the name of "Heliodorus." Cf. Sat. vi. 373.
| | | |
| | 124| 877|The eleventh Satire may perhaps be assigned to about
| | | |this date. It was written when Juvenal was advanced in
| | | |years. l. 203, "Nostra bibat vernum contracta cuticula
| | | |solem."
| | | |
| | | |The excitement about the games in the circus (cf.
| | | |Gibbon, chap. xl.) was as great as in the days of
| | | |Domitian; and the "green" appears at this time to have
| | | |been a victorious color. Compare Sat. xi. 195, "Totam
| | | |hodie Romam circus capit, et fragor aurem Percutit,
| | | |eventum _viridis_ quo colligo _panni_;" with the
| | | |inscription in Gruter, quoted in Clinton (in ann.),
| | | |"Primum agitavit in factione _prasinâ_." «Cf. Mart.
| | | |xiv. Ep. cxxxi., written long after Domitian's time.»
| | | |
| | 126| 879|Birth of Pertinax.
| | | |
| | | |«Dionysius of Halicarnassus flourishes.»
| | | |
| | 128| 881|Hadrian takes the title of "Pater Patriæ."
| | | |
|227| 129| 882|Julius Fronto mentioned, as commanding the "Classis
| | | |Prætoria Misenensis." Cf. A.D. 100.
| | | |
| | 130| 883|In the autumn of this year Hadrian is in Egypt.
| | | |«Compare the Greek inscription quoted by Clinton from
| | | |Eckhel with Sat. xv. 5.»
| | | |
| | | |While on the Nile he lost his favorite Antinous, and
| | | |built a city to his memory, which he called after him.
| | | |It is very probable that the lines, Sat. i. 60, _seq._,
| | | |referring primarily to Nero and Sporus, may have a
| | | |secondary allusion to Hadrian and Antinous.
| | | |
| | | |«Appian flourished. Galen born.»
| | | |
| | 138| 891|Death of Hadrian in his 63d year.
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