Ann. I.1

To relate a few facts . . . without bitterness or partiality . . .

Ann. I.81

I can hardly venture any positive statement about the high elections.

Ann. XIV.44

In every great precedent, there is some injustice.

Ann. V.10

The renown of the name drew the ignorant.

Ann. XIII.19

Of all things human, the most precarious and passing is a reputation for power.

Ann. XVI.18

Indolence raised him to fame, as industry raises others.

Agr. 30

Theft, slaughter, and plunder they give the false name of empire.

Ann. III.59

Such the lesson he first takes from his father's counsels.

Ann. IV.31

His words escaped him with a seeming struggle.

Ann. III.59

Such is the training of the future ruler of the world.

Ann. XIII.3

The first emperor who needed another man's eloquence.

Ann. I.4

He had the old inbred family arrogance.

Ann. I.9

Sensible men, however, spoke variously of his deeds with praise and censure.

Ann. IV.l

The daring wickedness by which he made plays for power.

Ann. I.7

Wishing to have had the credit of being called and elected by the State rather than slinking into power through intrigues.

Ann. XII.64

It was portended there were to be political changes for the worse.

Ann. IV.62

Then came a violent shock as the building fell inwards.

Ann. XII.43

As the panic spread, the weak were trodden down in the bustle and confusion.

Ann. XV.59

Even brave men are scared of sudden terrors.

Ann. IV.64

This disaster was not forgotten when a furious fire damaged the capital.

Ann. V.3

This was at the beginning of a grinding and unmitigated despotism.

Ann. XV.53

The emperor, who seldom went out and holed himself up in his house and gardens, used to adjourn for the entertainments of the circus.

Ann. XIV.l6

He enjoyed the wrangles of opposing dogmatists.

Ann. I.2

He concentrated in himself the functions of the Senate, the magistrates, and the laws.

Ann. XIII.43

We must punish the perpetrators of atrocious acts.

Ann. IV.11

Every circumstance was scrutinized and exaggerated.

Ann. XIV.20

The nobles were disgracing themselves on public stages, pretending to be orators and poets.

Ann. IV.74

Terror at home had filled their hearts.

Ann. I.6

The checkbook of empire, he said, can only be balanced by one person.

Ann. VI.28

All this is full of doubt and legendary hyperbole.

Ann. III.65

How ready these men are to be slaves.

Ann. III.6

Let them go back to their usual pursuits.

Ann. IV.30

Better, he held, to undermine the constitution than depose its guardians.

Ann. I.34

He was heard in silence, or with but a slight murmur.

Ann. V.3

Now they threw off the reins, so to speak, and loosed their fury.

Ann. IV.72

They sought a remedy in war.

Ann. XIII.8

All this however was related with exaggeration to the Senate.

Ann. XV.53

Lust for dominion is the most flagrant of the passions.

Ann. III.46

There was then a deafening cheer.

Ann. I.72

He had revived the law of treason.

Ann. I.75

This, though it promoted justice, ruined liberty.

Ann. IV.69

They applied their ears to cracks and crevices.

Ann. III.40

It was, they said, a great opportunity for the recovery of freedom.

Ann. II.72

This was spoken openly, other words were whispered.

Ann. IV.18

All this the emperor regarded as subverting his own power.

Ann. XIV.44

Granted that he hid his purpose.

Ann. II.87

Speech was restricted and perilous.

Ann. III.65

So corrupted indeed and debased was that time by sycophancy.

Ann. III.28

Over all hung a terror.

Ann. VI.17

Thereafter followed a scarcity of money.

Agr. 29

In his grief he discovered one source of relief in war.

Ann. XII.9

It was then resolved to delay no more.

Ann. I.49

Uproar, wounds, bloodshed were everywhere visible.

Ann. I.51

Go forward, he said, and hurry your guilt into glory.

Ann. II.18

From nine A.M. to night the enemy were slaughtered.

Ann. III.39

Half-armed stragglers were cut down without bloodshed to our side.

Agr. 30

They make a wasteland and they call it peace.

Ann. XII.7

There was a hardness and general arrogance in public.

Ann. III.44

All good folk were saddened by anxiety for the country.

Ann. IV.36

Only the insignificant and unimportant were punished.

Ann. XII.13

Having crossed the Tigris they roamed over the country.

Ann. XII.39

Now began a series of engagements, for the most part raids.

Ann. XII.17

Deciding that they should die by the just doom of war.

Ann. XII.39

Encounters due to chance or courage, carelessness or calculation.

Ann. XII.39

Under orders of officers, or at times without their knowledge.

Ann. XIV.26

Having harried by fire and sword all whom he thought were against us.

Ann. XIV.23

He was incessantly attacked by that tribe skilled in guerrilla warfare.

Agr. 15

The miserable have more vehemence and greater resolve.

Ann. XIII.2

And now they went on to further murders.

Ann. III.74

Less than us in military might, but equal in a war of surprises.

Ann. III.28

Then followed two decades of continuous strife.

Ann. III.71

Next came a religious question.

Ann. XI.18

None were to fall out of line.

Ann. II.30

There were other interrogations of the same sort, inane and idle.

Ann. XIII.44

Then, as is usual in lovers' spats: harsh words, oaths, reproaches, and excuses.

Ann. II.47

That same year twelve famous cities across Asia fell by an earthquake.

Ann. XIV.29

A horrific disaster was sustained in Britain.

Ann. XVI.13

A year of shame and so many evil deeds heaven also marked by hurricanes and pestilence.

Ann. IV.74

The emperor kept our losses a secret.

Ann. II.5

Meanwhile, the scuffle in the East was rather pleasing.

Agr. 20

Peace had become as much dreaded as war.

Ann. XIV.35

But heaven is on the side of a righteous revenge.

His. IV.17

The gods favor the stronger.

Agr. 24

I have often heard him say that a single legion and a few auxiliaries could take and occupy Ireland.

Ann. III.44

Even war is a good trade for a wretched peace.

Ann. II.50

Meantime the law of treason was gaining momentum.

Ann. XII.7

It was a tough and, so to speak, macho despotism.

His. III.20

A leader properly leads by forethought, by counsel, and by delay more than temerity.

Ann. XI.24

These and similar arguments failed to sway the emperor.

Ann. XI.28

The emperor's advisors indeed shuddered.

Ann. I.3

How few remained who had seen the Republic!

Ann. IV.31

Little joy interrupted this long litany of horrors.

Ann. II.26

He had now had enough of success and disaster.

Ann. VI.17

Rigor at the outset becoming negligence at the end.

Ann. IV.9

He fell back on those idle and oft-ridiculed promises of restoring the Republic.

Agr. 9

Public opinion is not always mistaken.

Ann. I.40

Abundant and more than abundant blunders, they said.

Ann. III.34

You must not check vices abroad without recalling the scandals of the capital.

Agr. 2

We should have lost memories as we lost our voices, were it as easy to forget as to keep silent.

Ann. XI.27

I do but record what I have heard.