Wednesday, August 15, 2018
No Sign of Dignity
Ronald Syme (1903-1989), Tacitus, Vol. I (1958; rpt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), p. 43:
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To be pelted with turnips when proconsul of Africa is no sign of dignity.2Suetonius, Life of Vespasian 4.3 (tr. J.C. Rolfe):
2 4.3.
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.
