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Three Notes on Tacitus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. Shaw-Smith
Affiliation:
Keighley

Abstract

Q. Veranius, the governor of Britain who died in office, assured Nero in his will that he would have subjugated Britain ‘si biennio proximo vixisset’’. Proximo is suspect; if he had lived two years longer they were bound to be the next two. Read si biennio provixisset. For the verb provivere, to live longer, see Ann. 6.25; for the confusion of proximo and pro, see Capelli, p.299; and cf. Iul. Cap., M. Aur. 27 ‘si anno uno superfuisset, provincias ex his fecisset’’.

Type
Shorter Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1979

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