LXXIII.
Per idem tempus expostulata ad supplicium Calvia Crispinilla variis frustrationibus et adversa dissimulantis principis fama (variis frustrationibus et adversa dissimulantis principis fama: ‘by means of various deceptions and at the cost of adverse fame of the duplicitous prince ) periculo exempta est. magistra libidinum Neronis, (magistra libidinum Neronis: according to some, she was directress of Nero’s harem.) transgressa in Africam ad instigandum in arma Clodium Macrum, (Clodium Macrum: cf. ch. 7.) famem populo Romano haud obscure (haud obscure: ‘hardly in a way not to be noticed’) molita, (famem populo Romano … molita [est]: ‘ strove to cause hunger to the Roman people’: it appears she had tried to prevent ships loaded with grain from leaving Egypt for Rome.) totius postea civitatis gratiam obtinuit, consulari matrimonio subnixa (consulari matrimonio subnixa: ‘made secure by a marriage to a man of consular rank’) et apud Galbam Othonem Vitellium inlaesa, mox potens pecunia et orbitate, (potens pecunia et orbitate: rich and heirless men and women were courted by droves of fortune hunters, an aspect of the age that furnished authors like Horace, Juvenal, Martial and others with abundant material for satire.) quae bonis malisque temporibus iuxta (iuxta: adverb, ‘equally’) valent.