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Wednesday 9 March 2011

Tacitus, Nero and Agrippina

Section 1d- lines 12-16

obtulit ingenium Anicetus libertus, classi apud Misenum
offered clever plan Anicetus freedman, fleet at Misenum
praefectus et pueritae Neronis educator ac mutuis odiis
commander and boy Nero tutor to mutual hatred
Agrippinae invisus. ergo navem posse componi docet, cuius
Agrippina hateful. so ship can build explain, of which
pars (ipso in mari) (per artem) soluta Agrippinam effunderet
part (itself in the sea) (by design) loosen Agrippina throw out
ignaram;
unsuspecting;

The freedman, Anicetus, commander of the fleet at Misenum and tutor of Nero when he was a boy and hateful to Agrippina in mutual hatred offered a clever plan. Therefore he explains a ship could be built, a part of which, loosened by design in the sea itself would throw out the unsuspecting Agrippina;

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