Chapter 15 Flashcards
Ne tamen adhuc publico theatro dehonestaretur, instituit ludos Iuvenalium vocabulo, in quos passim nomina data.
However, so that even now he would not be disgraced, in a public theatre, he established games by the name of the ‘Youth Games’, in which people of all areas of society were enlisted.
non nobilitas cuiquam, non aetas aut acti honores impedimento, quo minus Graeci Latinive histrionis artem exercerent usque ad gestus modosque haud viriles.
Neither noble lineage not age nor magistracies held was a factor stopping anyone from practicing the art of a Greek or Latin actor to the point of gestures and songs not of a man.
quin et feminae inlustres deformia meditari; exstructaque apud nemus, quod navali stagno circumposuit Augustus, conventicula et cauponae et posita veno inritamenta luxui.
In fact, even distinguished females rehearsed shameful acts and in the groe, which Augusutus puts around a naval lagoon, meeting places and inns were erected and incentives for luxury were put out for sale.
dabantur stipes, quas boni necessitate, intemperantes gloria consumerent.inde gliscere flagitia et infamia, nec ulla moribus olim corruptis plus libidinum circumdedit quam illa conluvies.
Small payments were given which respectable people spent under duress and the headstrong people spent in false pride. As a result of those crimes and scandals increased, and no other scum put more deviance around customs corrupted long ago than that scum.
vix artibus honestis pudor retinetur, nedum inter certamina vitiorum pudicitia aut modestia aut quicquam probi moris reservaretur. postremus ipse scaenam incedit, multa cura temptans citharam et praemeditans adsistentibus ph[on]ascis.
Shame is scarcely retained by honourable pursuits, still less amongst rivalries of vice and modesty or restraint or anything of a honest character preserved. Finally, the emperor himself came into the Auge, testing out his lute with great care and turning it up with his singing masters standing by.
accesserat cohors militum, centuriones tribunique et maerens Burrus ac laudans. tuncque primum conscripti sunt equites Romani cognomento Augustianorum, aetate ac robore conspicui, et pars ingenio procaces, alii in spe[m] potentiae.
A cohort of soldiers had joined, centurions and tribunes, and Burrus mourning and praising. Then, first the Roman equites were enlisted, with the surname Augustiana, men striking in youth and strength are part shameless in character, others in hope of power.
ii dies ac noctes plausibus personare, formam principis vocemque deum vocabulis appellantes; quasi per virtutem clari honoratique agere.
The Augustinians made continuous noise by applauding for days and nights, calling the beauty and voice of the emperor by the names of Gods; they live distinguished and honoured as if through virtue.
