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Igitur Caesar repetitis adversum nepotem et nurum probris increpitaque per edictum plebe, (repetitis adversum nepotem et nurum probris increpitaque per edictum plebe: abl. abs.: ‘his bitter abuse against his grandson and daughter-in-law being repeated [in a second letter] and the populace being strongly censured through an edict, …’) questus apud patres quod fraude unius senatoris imperatoria maiestas elusa publice foret, (questus …quod fraude unius senatoris imperatoria maiestas elusa publice foret: ‘he protested on the ground that by the trickery of one senator his imperial dignity had been publicly slighted.’ quod … elusa …foret: causal quod, normally with indicative, takes subjunctive when the reason given represents the thought of someone other than the writer (i.e is in virtual indirect discourse). The ‘tricky’ senator Tiberius refers to is of course Junius Rusticus mentioned in previous chapter.) integra tamen sibi cuncta postulavit. nec ultra deliberatum quo minus non quidem extrema decernerent (id enim vetitum), sed paratos ad ultionem vi principis impediri testarentur . . . . . . . . . (nec ultra deliberatum quo minus non quidem extrema decernerent (id enim vetitum), sed paratos ad ultionem vi principis impediri testarentur: ‘it was no longer wavered, not indeed, that they should pronounce a final decision (this was in fact prohibited), but that they should solemnly declare that they – ready for vengeance – were held back by the emperor’s power.’ deliberatum [est]: the impersonal passive of delibero is here with the sense of ‘to be in doubt’, ‘to waver’, ‘to hesitate’ and, being used in the negative, functions as one of the verbs impedienti or recusanti which are followed by a complementary clause with quo minus or quin + subjunctive (see G. 549).)
(. . . . . . . . .: a gap in the narrative occurs at this point in the original text extending to almost three years, comprising the remaining months of 29 A.D., then 30 and 31 A.D. Missing is the remainder of Book 5 from ch. 5 on. Book 6 begins on Jan. 1, 32 A.D. Since the manuscript contains nothing that indicates the start of a new book after Book 5, ch. 5, Justus Lipsius in 1574 proposed that Book 6 should begin with the names of the consuls for the year 32 A.D. Most editions of the Annals down to this day accept Lipsius’ idea, including the numbering of the fragmentary V. 6 to V. 11 preceding Book 6. The list of major events presumably narrated in the missing part of Book 5 is as follows: — 29 A.D.: trial and exile of Agrippina and Nero, the first banished to Pandataria (today’s Ventotene), the latter to Pontia (modern Ponza), both islands off the Tyrrhenian coast near Naples; –marriage of Drusus, Germanicus’ son, to Aemilia Lepida; — 30 A.D.: Asinius Gallus arraigned and condemned; — Drusus declared a public enemy and confined to a dungeon under the imperial palace; — Sejanus’ power at its peak; — 31 A.D.: consulate of Sejanus and Tiberius; — Sejanus’ move to Rome; — death of Nero in exile; — Tiberius, warned of Sejanus’ plan to displace him, had him executed; — Apicata, Sejanus’ estranged wife, revealed to Tiberius the poisoning of his son Drusus eight years earlier by Sejanus; — death of Livia (Livilla), probably starved by her mother Antonia Minor as punishment for having been Sejanus’ paramour and partner in crime in the murder of her husband Drusus; — accomplices, friends, and relatives of Sejanus proscribed or executed.)