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Оглавление32 i.e. the emperor's finance agent in the province of Belgica.
34 A gold signet-ring was the sign of a free-born Roman knight. Its grant to freedmen was an innovation of which Tacitus disapproved.
35 Tacitus here follows the story told by Suetonius in his life of Otho. In the Annals, xiii. 45, 46, Tacitus gives in detail a more probable version. It is more likely that Poppaea used Otho as a stepping-stone to Nero's favour than that Otho, as Suetonius quotes, 'committed adultery with his own wife.'
37 One of the three Commissioners of Public Revenue appointed by Nero in a.d. 62 (Ann., xv. 18).
38 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus was the son of M. Licinius Crassus Frugi, and adopted son of L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi. His mother, Scribonia, was a descendant of Pompey.
39 Adoption from one family into another needed in old days the sanction of the Comitia Curiata. When that assembly became obsolete, the priests summoned a formal meeting of thirty lictors, and their sanction of an act of adoption was still called lex curiata. Galba was now Pontifex maximus.
40 Galba belonged to the Gens Sulpicia, and was connected through his mother, Mummia, with Q. Lutatius Catulus, who had led the senatorial party in the first half of the last century.
41 i.e. Galba's great-grandfather had fought for Caesar against Piso's ancestor, Pompey.
42 The children of Julia and Agrippa.
43 Crassus Scribonianus, cp. chap. 47, and iv. 39.
44 i.e. co-optation, employed in former days to raise a special contingent for emergencies.
