The request of the people of Gades was likewise complied with: that a governor should not be sent to their city; being contrary to what had been agreed with them by Lucius Marcius Septimus, when they came under the protection of the Roman people. Deputies from Narnia, complaining that they...
Still, in cases of necessity and urgent campaigns, he was simple and frugal, toiling with painstaking care in menial offices as much as the rest. He trudged beside the soldiers and ran beside them, not taking a bath nor changing his clothing, but helping them in every labor and choosing ...
M. C. Toynbee's reading of this famous passage, the precise meaning may be better ap- proximated by introducing the ablative absolute phrase urgentibuismperifiatis with "although"rather than "since."I also agreewith Benariothat, in the perspectiveof Tacitus's audience, the "fate"of Rome ...