XXVI.
Reductus inde in hiberna miles, laetus animi (laetus animi: animi is genitive of specification (A.G. 349, d.), which expressed that in relation to which a certain condition exists. This form of objective genitive is found with adjectives of all kinds in poetry and in later writers.) quod adversa maris expeditione prospera pensavisset. (quod … pensavisset: causal quod takes subjunctive when the reason given is not assigned by the writer, but represents somebody else’s thought (Ernout).) addidit munificentiam Caesar, quantum quis damni professus erat exsolvendo. (quantum quis damni professus erat exsolvendo: ‘by compensating for as much damage as any soldier had declared’; exsolvendo is abl. gerund, which admits a direct object, here the clause introduced by quantum; damni is partitive genitive after the neuter quantum; another example of abl. gerund with a direct object is consulatum offerendo below, near the end of the chapter.) nec dubium habebatur labare hostis petendaeque pacis consilia sumere, (hostis petendaeque pacis consilia sumere: in oratio obliqua after nec dubium habebatur: ‘that the enemies were considering the advisability of suing for peace’; lit. ‘of peace to be sought’, objective genitive gerundive) et si proxima aestas adiceretur, posse bellum patrari. (si proxima aestas adiceretur, posse bellum patrari: conditional sentence in indir. speech: ‘that if the next summer were added, the war could be concluded’; imperfect subjunctive in the protasis for future condition in the past, present infinitive in the apodosis for action contemporaneous with that of the protasis.) sed crebris epistulis Tiberius monebat rediret ad decretum triumphum: satis iam eventuum, satis casuum. prospera illi et magna proelia: (satis iam eventuum, satis casuum, prospera illi et magna proelia: ‘enough gains already, enough losses, he had great and favorable battles.’ eventuum and casuum are partitive genitives after the neuter satis; eventus is here synonymous with ‘success’; illi, for Germanico is dat. of possessor with implied erat.) eorum quoque meminisset, quae venti et fluctus, nulla ducis culpa, gravia tamen et saeva damna intulissent. (eorum quoque meminisset, quae venti et fluctus … gravia … et saeva damna intulissent: ‘he urged him to return, to remember also the painful, terrible losses that winds and waved had caused.’ moneo is most often followed by a complementary clause in the subjunctive with or without ut; meminisset has form of pluperfect, but the force of the imperfect and requires the genitive of the thing remembered, here eorum, quae …; the determinative eorum is neuter plural of is and agrees in gender and number, but not in case, with damna: lit., ‘he should be mindful of those, which losses the winds and the waves had inflicted.’) se novies (novies: between 9 – 7 B.C. and 4 – 11 A.D. (Allen). The adverbial novies or noviens answers the question ‘How many times?’.) a divo Augusto in Germaniam missum plura consilio quam vi perfecisse. sic Sugambros in deditionem acceptos, sic Suebos regemque Maroboduum (Sugambros …, Suebos regemque Maroboduum: the Sugambri were in part exterminated and the rest transferred from their lands south of the river Lippe to the Gallic side of the Rhine in 8 B.C. The vast group of the Suebi were settled mainly between the Elbe and the Danube. The tribes subject to the king Marobodus had agreed to a peace with the Romans in 6 A.D.) pace obstrictum. posse et Cheruscos ceterasque rebellium gentis, quoniam Romanae ultioni consultum esset, internis discordiis relinqui. (posse et Cheruscos ceterasque rebellium gentis, quoniam Romanae ultioni consultum esset, internis discordiis relinqui: in indir. speech: ‘that it was possible that even the Cherushi and the other nations of the rebels be left to their internal dissentions, since Roman vengeance had been satisfied’; ultioni is dat. with the intransitive consulo, ‘to provide for’, ‘to take care of’; consultum esset is impersonal use of passive, lit. ‘it had been taken thought for’.) precante Germanico annum efficiendis coeptis, acrius modestiam eius adgreditur (precante Germanico annum efficiendis coeptis, acrius modestiam eius adgreditur: precante Grmanico is abl. abs. of causal sense: lit. ‘Germanicus soliciting a year for his enterprise to be completed, [Tiberius] appealed more aggressively to his sense of duty.’ modestiam has perhaps the sense of ‘deference’, ‘sense of discipline’, though some interpret it as ‘ambition’.) alterum consulatum offerendo cuius munia praesens obiret. (alterum consulatum offerendo cuius munia praesens obiret: ‘by offering a second consulship the duties of which he would discharge in person’; obiret is potential subjunctive.) simul adnectebat, si foret adhuc bellandum, relinqueret materiem Drusi fratris gloriae, (si foret adhuc bellandum, relinqueret materiem Drusi fratris gloriae: conditional sentence in oratio obliqua, with: subjunctive in both protasis and apodosis: ‘if further fighting were going to be necessary, he should leave scope for the glory of his brother Drusus.’ relinqueret is hortatory subjunctive; in direct speech: relinque.) qui nullo tum alio hoste non nisi apud Germanias adsequi nomen imperatorium et deportare lauream posset. (qui nullo tum alio hoste non nisi apud Germanias adsequi nomen imperatorium … posset: posset is subjunctive by modal attraction (L. 1728, G. 508, 629, A.G. 593), in a relative clause dependent on another subjunctive, the previous relinqueret: ‘[Drusus] who, there being then no other enemy [of Rome] except among the Germans, could not attain the title of Imperator’. non nisi or nonnisi: phrasal or one-word conjunction, ‘apart from’, other than’, often found in imperial writers, such as Ovid, Quintilian, and Tacitus) haud cunctatus est ultra Germanicus, quamquam fingi ea seque per invidiam parto iam decori abstrahi intellegeret. (quamquam fingi ea seque per invidiam parto iam decori abstrahi intelleger et: ‘even though he understood that those reasons (ea) were a pretense (fingi: ‘were contrived’) and that, through jealousy, he (se) was robbed of a glory already acquired’; quamquam …intellegeret: the analogy of quamvis, began to call for the subjunctive after quamquam, beginning with Nepos, Livy, and others. parto decori is dat. with abstraho, which normally is with ab + abl..)