Chapter 11 Flashcards
Adiciebat crimina longius repetita, quod consortium imperii iuraturasque in feminae verba praetorias cohortes idemque dedecus senatus et populi speravisset, ac postquam frustra [h]abita sit, infensa militi patribusque et plebi dissuasisset donativum et congiarium periculaque viris inlustribus struxisset.
He was adding charges dredged up from a long while back, that she had hoped for partnership of imperial power and that the praetorian cohort would swear allegiance to a woman to the same disgrace of senate and the people;
ac postquam frustra [h]abita sit, infensa militi patribusque et plebi dissuasisset donativum et congiarium periculaque viris inlustribus struxisset.
afterwards, when she was disappointed, hostile to the military, the senate and the people, she advised against the sum of money given as gratuity to every soldier by the Roman emperor, the quantity of oil and win distributed to the people and she had planned dangers for distinguished men.
quanto suo labore perpetratum, ne inrumperet curiam, ne gentibus externis responsa daret! temporum quoque Claudianorum obliqua insectatione cuncta eius dominationis flagitia in matrem transtulit, publica fortuna exstinctam referens.
With how much of his own work had been completed so that she didn’t burst into the Senate House and she did not give replies to foreign people! With an indirect criticism of the times of Claudius, he also transferred all the scandals of that reign to his mother, ascribing her killing to public good fortune.
namque et naufragium narrabat: quod fortuitum fuisse, quis adeo hebes inveniretur, ut crederet? aut a muliere naufraga missum cum telo unum, qui cohortes et classes imperatoris perfringeret? ergo non iam Nero, cuius immanitas omnium questus anteibat, sed Seneca adverso rumore erat, quod oratione tali confessionem scripsisset.
For he also told the shipwreck story: but who might be found, so stupid, to believe that this was accidental? Or that one man had been sent with a sword by the shipwrecked woman, in order to break through the imperial fleet and cohort? Therefore it was now not Nero, whose brutality surpassed all complaint, but Seneca was the subject of ill repute because he had written a confession with such a speech.
