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Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus' Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the increasingly tyrannical princeps, secluded on the island of Capri; the book ends with his death and obituary notice, one of the most celebrated passages of classical literature. The volume presents a new text of Books 5 and 6, restoring the division between them which was proposed by Lipsius, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. An Appendix discusses 'The Tacitean Tiberius'. The volume rounds off the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of Tacitus' Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996).
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CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND C O M M E N TA R I E S editors J. D I G G L E N. H O P K I N S O N S . P. OA K L E Y J. G. F. P O W E L L M . D. R E E V E D. N . S E D L E Y R . J. TA R R A N T 55 T H E A N NA L S O F TAC I T U S BOOKS 5 AND 6 THE AN NA LS OF TACITUS B O O K S 5 AND 6 E D I T E D W I T H A C O M M E N TA RY BY A. J. WOODMAN Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics, University of Virginia University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 4843/24, 2nd Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, Delhi - 110002, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107152700 C Cambridge University Press 2017 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2017 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Names: Tacitus, Cornelius, author. | Woodman, A. J. (Anthony John), 1945– editor. Title: The Annals of Tacitus, books 5 and 6 / edited with a commentary by A. J. Woodman. Other titles: Annales. Libri 5–6 Description: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. Identifiers: lccn 2016019218 | isbn 9781107152700 Subjects: LCSH: Tacitus, Cornelius. Annales. Classification: lcc pa6705.a6 b5 2016 | ddc 937/.07 – dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016019218 isbn 978-1-107-15270-0 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. TO DOROTHY, DAVID AND JOHN CONTE NTS Preface References and abbreviations page ix xii 1 I N T RO D U C T I O N TEXT 11 C O M M E N TA RY 47 APPEN D IX: THE TACITEAN TIBERIUS 302 INDEXES 1 General 2 Latin words 3 Names 316 316 320 321 vii P R E FAC E Fifty years ago F. R. D. Goodyear undertook to write a commentary on the first six books of Tacitus’ Annals for the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries. The series was the brainchild of the then Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge, C. O. Brink, who worked on Tacitus intermittently throughout his life and had originally planned to contribute the Tacitus comm