Wednesday, August 15, 2018

 

No Sign of Dignity

Ronald Syme (1903-1989), Tacitus, Vol. I (1958; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p. 43:
To be pelted with turnips when proconsul of Africa is no sign of dignity.2

2 4.3.
Suetonius, Life of Vespasian 4.3 (tr. J.C. Rolfe):
The chance of the lot then gave him Africa, which he governed with great justice and high honour, save that in a riot at Hadrumetum he was pelted with turnips.

Exim sortitus Africam integerrime nec sine magna dignatione administravit, nisi quod Hadrumeti seditione quadam rapa in eum iacta sunt.



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