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Suetonius - Section B
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| orsus hinc ab ostentatione pietatis Claudium apparatissimo funere elatum laudavit et consecravit. | Having begun from this point with a display of devotion, he praised Claudius, who was carried out in a very magnificent funeral, and deified him. |
| memoriae Domiti patris honores maximos habuit. matri summam omnium rerum privatarum publicarumque permisit. | He paid the greatest honours to the memory of his father Domitius. He entrusted the greatest of all private and public affairs to his mother. |
| primo etiam imperii die signum excubanti tribuno dedit 'optimam matrem' ac deinceps eiusdem saepe lectica per publicum simul vectus est. | On the first day of his reign, he even gave the password "best mother" to the tribune keeping watch and thereafter he was carried together often in the litter of the same woman in public. |
| Antium coloniam deduxit, ascriptis veteranis e praetorio additisque per domicilii translationem ditissimis primipilarium, | He established a colony at Antium, with the veterans of the Praetorian guards having been enrolled and having added the richest of the senior centurions through a transfer of their homes, |
| ubi et portum operis sumptuosissimi fecit. atque ut certiorem adhuc indolem ostenderet, | where he also built a harbour as a very expensive project. And to show his character still more firmly, |
| ex Augusti praescripto imperaturum se professus, neque liberalitatis neque clementiae, ne comitatis quidem exhibendae ullam occasionem omisit. | he declared that he would rule according to the principles of Augustus, not leaving out any occasions for showing generosity, mercy, and not even friendship. |