09-04-2022, 06:38 AM
(09-03-2022, 10:50 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote: I think that Tacitus in Annals is using the phrase more in the way that Lucan uses it in the passage I quoted above, to mean a campaigning base - the two translations you mention, the Loeb one and Michael Grant's, actually encapsulate the two slightly differing readings very well!
I favour the Michael Grant approach. The reasons given for Suetonius not making London his sedes bello were the paucity of the troops around him and the example of what had happened to Cerialis. Those would be the considerations to bear in mind if he were thinking of engaging the enemy then and there.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
