LXXXVI.
Post quae rettulit Caesar capiendam virginem (rettulit Caesar capiendam [esse] virginem: ‘Tiberius reported that a virgin should be chosen’; capiendam [esse]: use of passive periphrasis to denote need.) in locum Occiae, quae septem et quinquaginta per annos summa sanctimonia Vestalibus sacris praesederat; (summa sanctimonia Vestalibus sacris praesederat: ‘had presided over the Vestal rites with supreme piousness’; Vesta was the goddess of the household and of the hearth in general.) egitque grates Fonteio Agrippae (Fonteio Agrippae: mentioned previously in ch. 30) et Domitio Pollioni quod offerendo filias de officio in rem publicam certarent. (quod offerendo filias de officio in rem publicam certarent: ‘because by offering the daughters they competed, in emulation of each other, about service to the state’; offerendo is gerund abl. of instrument; causal quod is with subjunctive if the reason is presumed by someone other than the author, here Tiberius. Cf. next note.) praelata est Pollionis filia, non ob aliud quam quod mater eius in eodem coniugio manebat; (non ob aliud quam quod … manebat: lit. ‘for no other reason than because she remained …’; quod is with indicative when the reason is assigned on the writer’s authority.) nam Agrippa discidio (discidio: = divortio, abl. of cause) domum imminuerat. et Caesar quamvis posthabitam (quamvis posthabitam: quamvis, usually followed by concessive clause with finite verb, is here in combination with a participle, a post-classical usage.) decies sestertii (decies sestertii: decies is short for decies centena milia or ’one million’ decies is adverb meaning ‘ten times’.) dote solatus est.