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TACITUS.  54-119 a. d.

(The Oxford Translation. Bohn's Classical Library.)

The images of twenty of the most illustrious families—the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour—were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.[747:1]

Annales. iii. 76. 11.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.[747:2]

Annales. vi. 39, 17.

He [Tiberius] upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising."[747:3]

Annales. vi. 52 (46).

He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.[747:4]