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Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, described by Sir Ronald Syme as 'the best that Tacitus ever wrote', covers the years AD 23-28, the pivotal period in the principate of the emperor Tiberius. Under the malign influence of Sejanus, the henchman who duped him and was loaded with honours, Tiberius withdrew to the island of Capri and was never again seen in Rome, where the treason trials engendered an atmosphere of terror. The<span class='showMoreLessContentElement' style='display: none;'> volume presents a new text of Book 4, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. The introduction discusses the relationship between Tacitus and Sallust. The volume completes the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of the 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) and on Books 5-6 by A. J. Woodman (2016).
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CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND COMMENTARIES editors J. DIGGLE N. HOPKINSON S. P. OAKLEY J. G. F. POWELL M. D. REEVE D. N. SEDLEY R. J. TARRANT
58 THE ANNALS OF TACITUS BOOK 4
THE ANNALS OF TACITUS BOOK 4 EDITED WITH A COMMENTARY
BY
A. J. WOODMAN
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TO TED COURTNEY Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics 1993–2002 University of Virginia Quo non praestantior alter
CONTENTS Preface References and abbreviations
page ix xii
INTRODUCTION
1
TEXT
13
COMMENTARY
57
INDEXES 1 General 2 Latin words 3 Names
339 344 345
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PREFACE This volume of commentary completes the sequence on Annals 1–6 which was begun by F. R. D. Goodyear forty-five years ago in 1972. Two decades previously, in 1952, Bessie Walker had publishe