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Honores ut quis amore in Germanicum aut ingenio validus reperti decretique: (honores ut quis amore in Germanicum aut ingenio validus reperti decretique: ‘honors were found and decreed, according as one was strong in his love for Germanicus and in his ability [to express it].’) ut nomen eius Saliari carmine caneretur; ([decretum est] ut nomen eius Saliari carmine caneretur: ‘it was decreed that his name be included in the song of the Salii.’ The Salii were members of a sodality of priests active in the worship of Mars. The Latin in which the song was written was so ancient as to be unintelligible to Horace and to Quintilian. The latter claimed that not even the priests knew what the poem was about. ut caneretur: decerno, here as implied decretum est, is one of the verbs complemented by a final clause (cf. G. 546, Note 1.); see also instituit uti … at the end of the chapter.) sedes curules sacerdotum Augustalium locis superque eas querceae coronae statuerentur; ([ut] sedes curules sacerdotum Augustalium locis superque eas querceae coronae statuerentur: [‘it was decreed] that curule seats, with on top oaken crowns, be provided for him anywhere the priests of Augustus had right of place. sedes curules are chairs of state reserved in the theater or elsewhere for someone of importance, in this case for Germanicus, thus left empty in his honor.) ludos circensis eburna effigies praeiret neve quis flamen aut augur in locum Germanici nisi gentis Iuliae crearetur. (neve quis flamen aut augur in locum Germanici nisi gentis Iuliae crearetur: neve (et + ne) serves as conjunction when adding a negative final clause to a series of ut or ne clauses, as is the case above, where ut is used three times before the neve clause : ‘and that no one, be he a priest or an augur, should be created in his place unless [he belonged] to the Julian gens’ Germanicus was both priest and augur; cf. Book 1, ch. 62. He was replaced by his son Nero and by Drusus, Tiberius’ son.) arcus additi Romae et apud ripam Rheni et in monte Syriae Amano (in monte Syriae Amano: mons Amanus is a chain of mountains north of Antioch; it forms the boundary between Syria and Cilicia.) cum inscriptione rerum gestarum ac mortem ob rem publicam obisse. sepulchrum Antiochiae ubi crematus, tribunal Epidaphnae (tribunal Epidaphnae: tribunal is here a mound of earth over a grave; Epidaphnae was a suburb of Antioch in Syria, which had a sanctuary to Apollo, hence the reference to Daphne in the name.) quo in loco vitam finierat. statuarum locorumve in quis coleretur haud facile quis numerum inierit. (haud facile quis numerum inierit: ‘difficult to calculate the exact number’; lit. ‘difficult which number determined the quantity or total’; cf. inire numerum, ‘to arrive at the total’; quis numerum inierit: subjunctive for indirect question introduced by quis; in direct speech: ‘what number did it come to?’; numerum is genitive plural, hence partitive after quis.) cum censeretur clipeus auro et magnitudine insignis inter auctores eloquentiae, (cum censeretur clipeus auro et magnitudine insignis inter auctores eloquentiae,…: temporal cum + subjunctive, also called narrative or historical cum: ‘when a golden disc, remarkable for its size among the effigies of great orators, was proposed, …’; the portraits were displayed in the Palatine library (cf. ch. 37); Germanicus was a gifted speaker and even a poet. magnitudine is abl. of quality with an adjective.) adseveravit Tiberius solitum paremque ceteris dicaturum: neque enim eloquentiam fortuna discerni et satis inlustre si veteres inter scriptores haberetur. equester ordo cuneum (cuneum: cuneus is one of the wedge-shaped blocks of seats in a theater, widest at the top and most narrow at ground level. There were fourteen cunei in a theater, assigned to separate parts of society.) Germanici appellavit qui iuniorum dicebatur, instituitque uti turmae idibus Iuliis imaginem eius sequerentur. (instituitque uti turmae idibus Iuliis imaginem eius sequerentur: the subject is equester ordo: ‘it resolved that (ut) their parade of horse riders on the fifteenth of July should follow his image.’ The ides of March, May, July, and October fell on the fifteenth of the month, the rest on the thirteenth. instituit ut …: verbs of resolving (verba studii et voluntatis) are followed by a complementary final clause. Cf. also note for [decretum est] above.) Pleraque manent: quaedam statim omissa sunt aut vetustas oblitteravit.