Tacitus Section 27 Flashcards
Octavo decimo kalendas Februarias sacrificanti pro aede Apollinis Galbae haruspex Vmbricius tristia exta et instantis insidias ac domesticum hostem praedicit,
On the fifteenth of January, to Galba sacrificing in front of the temple of Apollo, the seer Umbricius declares (historic present) the omens unfavourable
audiente, Othone (nam proximus adstiterat) idque ut laetum e contra- rio et suis cogitationibus prosperum interpretante.
a plot imminent, and an enemy in the household, with Otho hearing it, (for he had stood nearest), in contrast as happy [news] and interpreting it as favourable to his ideas.
nec multo post libertus Onomastus nuntiat expectari eum ab architecto et redemptoribus, quae significatio coeuntium iam militum et paratae coniurationis convenerat.
Not much later his freedman, Onomastus, announces to him that he was expected by his architect and contractors, which sign of the soldiers already coming together and of a prepared conspiracy had been agreed.
Otho, causam digressus requirentibus, cum emi sibi praedia vetustate suspecta eoque prius exploranda finxisset, innixus liberto per Tiberianam domum in Velabrum, inde ad miliarium aureum sub aedem Saturni pergit.
Otho, to those asking about the cause of the departure, when he had pretended that properties were being bought by him of suspected age, and for that reason needing to be examined first, leaning on his freedman he presses on through the palace of Tiberius into the Velabrum, and then to the golden milestone under the temple of Saturn.
ibi tres et viginti speculatores consalutatum imperatorem ac paucitate salutantium trepidum et sellae festinanter impositum strictis mucronibus rapiunt;
There twenty-three bodyguards whisk him off, having been hailed as Emperor, and frightened with the fewness of those thus hailing him, and placed in a rush on a chair with drawn swords.
totidem ferme milites in itinere adgregantur, alii conscientia, plerique miraculo, pars clamore et gladiis, pars silentio, animum ex eventu sumpturi.
About the same number of soldiers flock together in the way, some through being in on the plot, the majority in wonderment, a part with shouting and swords, a part in silence, about to take their attitude from what happened.
