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Germania and Agricola
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ISBN10: 1547276428
ISBN13: 9781547276424
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 3 2017
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781547276424
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 3 2017
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
We have also the comments of Pliny on a panegyrical oration, which Tacitus pronounced, when consul, upon his predecessor in the consular office, Verginius Rufus, perhaps the most remarkable man of his age, distinguished alike as a hero, a statesman, and a scholar, and yet so modest or so wise that he repeatedly refused the offer of the imperial purple. Fortune, says Pliny, always faithful to Verginius, reserved for her last favor, such an orator to pronounce a eulogium on such virtues. It was enough to crown the glory of a well spent life (Plin. Epis. ii. 1). The speeches in the historical works of Tacitus, though rather concise and abstract for popular orations, are full of force and fire. Some of them are truly Demosthenic in their impassioned and fiery logic. The speech of Galgacus before the Briton army, when driven into the extremity of Caledonia by the Romans under Agricola, can hardly be surpassed for patriotic sentiments, vigorous reasoning, and burning invective. The address of Germanicus to his mutinous soldiers (in the Annals) is not less remarkable for tender pathos. The sage and yet soldierlike address of the aged Galba to his adopted son Piso, the calm and manly speech of Piso to the body guard, the artful harangue of the demagogue Otho to his troops, the no less crafty address of Mucianus to Vespasian, the headlong rapidity of Antonius' argument for immediate
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