A Study of Cn Domitius Corbulo As Found in the Annals of Tacitus
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40 A STUDY OF CN. DOMITIUS CORBULO plan. It was used to justify his destruction of the city. As I have stated before, it was a commonplace with ancient encomiasts to exaggerate any fact which thereby would amplify the praise of the person concerned. Even Cicero in lauding the good qualities of Pompey says: vend tempestatesque obsecundarint. 14 In the account of this miraculum in Tacitus, I think we can see indicated the handling of it by three different persons. The first was Corbulo, who ...saw the eclipse and described in his Memoirs the strange phenomena which he observed; the second was some panegyrist, who took the incident and gave to it an exaggerated interpretation as a miraculum velut numine oblatum for the praise of Corbulo; the third was Tacitus, who felt that the account he was following was too exaggerated to be true, and that he did not care to give it as a statement of fact and so introduced it with the qualifying word adicitur. And more especially do the words ut ....
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40 A STUDY OF CN. DOMITIUS CORBULO plan. It was used to justify his destruction of the city. As I have stated before, it was a commonplace with ancient encomiasts to exaggerate any fact which thereby would amplify the praise of the person concerned. Even Cicero in lauding the good qualities of Pompey says: vend tempestatesque obsecundarint. 14 In the account of this miraculum in Tacitus, I think we can see indicated the handling of it by three different persons. The first was Corbulo, who ...saw the eclipse and described in his Memoirs the strange phenomena which he observed; the second was some panegyrist, who took the incident and gave to it an exaggerated interpretation as a miraculum velut numine oblatum for the praise of Corbulo; the third was Tacitus, who felt that the account he was following was too exaggerated to be true, and that he did not care to give it as a statement of fact and so introduced it with the qualifying word adicitur. And more especially do the words ut ....
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