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Par inde exultatio disparibus causis consecuta impetrato Tigellini exitio. (par inde exultatio disparibus causis consecuta impetrato Tigellini exitio: ‘later equal exultation [but] for different reasons followed, Tigellinus’ execution having been secured’; impetrato … exitio is abl. abs.; for Tigellinus see ch. 24.) Ofonius Tigellinus obscuris parentibus, foeda pueritia, impudica senecta, praefecturam vigilum et praetorii et alia praemia virtutum, quia velocius erat, vitiis adeptus, (praemia virtutum, quia velocius erat, vitiis adeptus: adeptus, being deponent, has active sense: ‘having appropriated with his vices, because it was faster, the rewards of virtue’.) crudelitatem mox, deinde avaritiam, virilia scelera, exercuit, corrupto ad omne facinus Nerone, quaedam ignaro ausus, (corrupto ad omne facinus Nerone, quaedam ignaro ausus: two ablatives abs.: corrupto …Nerone and [Nerone] ignaro: ‘Nero being perverted to all kinds of crimes, some of them he himself [Tigellinus] dared, Nero being unaware’; the antecedent of quaedam is a plur. facinora.) ac postremo eiusdem desertor ac proditor: unde non alium pertinacius ad poenam flagitaverunt, diverso adfectu, (diverso adfectu: ‘with contrary intention’) quibus odium Neronis inerat et quibus desiderium. apud Galbam Titi Vinii potentia defensus, praetexentis servatam ab eo filiam. ([Titi Vinii] filiam: mentioned in ch. 13 as a likely wife for Otho and again in ch. 47) haud dubie servaverat, non clementia, quippe tot interfectis, (non clementia, quippe tot interfectis: ‘not out of mercy obviously, after so many had been killed’) sed effugium in futurum, quia pessimus quisque diffidentia praesentium mutationem pavens adversus publicum odium privatam gratiam praeparat: (privatam gratiam praeparat: ‘builds up beforehand private credit’; praeparat is universal present: cf. G. 227. ) unde nulla innocentiae cura sed vices impunitatis. (unde nulla innocentiae cura sed vices impunitatis: ‘hence no concern for freedom from guilt, just an exchange of impunity’; vices is nominative plural, the singular being unknown.) eo infensior populus, (eo infensior populous: ‘for that reason the more hostile the people’; eo, ‘thereby’, is adverb in the form of an abl. of difference, with the comparative expressing the difference.) addita ad vetus Tigellini odium recenti Titi Vinii invidia, concurrere ex tota urbe in Palatium ac fora et, ubi plurima vulgi licentia, in circum ac theatra effusi seditiosis vocibus strepere, donec Tigellinus accepto apud Sinuessanas aquas (apud Sinuessanas aquas: modern Mondragone, 45 km or 28 miles NW of Naples, 40 km or 25 miles west of Caserta) supremae necessitatis nuntio inter stupra concubinarum et oscula et deformis moras sectis novacula faucibus infamem vitam foedavit (donec … foedavit: donec takes indicative if an actual event indicates a time limit.) etiam exitu sero et inhonesto.