LATIN PROSE LITERATURE
PISO IN SYRIA
at Cn. Piso, quo celerius consilia inciperet, postquam Syriam ac legions attigit, largitione et ambitu infimos militum
iuvabat.
But Gnaeus Piso, in order to begin his plans more quickly, after he reached Syria and the legions was helping the
most disreputable of the soldiers with generous gifts and with bribery.
cum veteres centuriones, severos tribunos demovisset,locaque eorum clientibus suis attribuisset,
When he had removed the long-serving centurions and the strict tribunes and he had handed over their places to his
own clients,
desidiam in castris, licentiam in urbibus, lascivientes per agros milites sinebat.
he allowed idleness in the camps, hooliganism in the cities, the soldiers to run riot through the countryside.
nec Plancina, uxor Pisonis, se gerebat ut feminam decebat
And nor did Plancina, the wife of Piso,conduct herself as was befitting a woman,
sed exercitio equitum intererat, et in Agrippinam, in Germanicum contumelias iaciebat.
but attended the exercises of the cavalry and she used to hurl insults against Agrippina, against Germanicus.
nota haec Germanico, sed praeverti ad Armenios instantior cura fuit.
These things were well-known to Germanicus but his more pressing concern was to attend to the Armenians first.
PISO IN SYRIA
at Cn. Piso, quo celerius consilia inciperet, postquam Syriam ac legions attigit, largitione et ambitu infimos militum
iuvabat.
But Gnaeus Piso, in order to begin his plans more quickly, after he reached Syria and the legions was helping the
most disreputable of the soldiers with generous gifts and with bribery.
cum veteres centuriones, severos tribunos demovisset,locaque eorum clientibus suis attribuisset,
When he had removed the long-serving centurions and the strict tribunes and he had handed over their places to his
own clients,
desidiam in castris, licentiam in urbibus, lascivientes per agros milites sinebat.
he allowed idleness in the camps, hooliganism in the cities, the soldiers to run riot through the countryside.
nec Plancina, uxor Pisonis, se gerebat ut feminam decebat
And nor did Plancina, the wife of Piso,conduct herself as was befitting a woman,
sed exercitio equitum intererat, et in Agrippinam, in Germanicum contumelias iaciebat.
but attended the exercises of the cavalry and she used to hurl insults against Agrippina, against Germanicus.
nota haec Germanico, sed praeverti ad Armenios instantior cura fuit.
These things were well-known to Germanicus but his more pressing concern was to attend to the Armenians first.
