Fabius Maximus. So Tacitus, "Annals," i. 5, who relates this story somewhat differently.

See Tacitus, "Annals," i. 3. As to his fate, see "Annals," i. 6.

Tiberius Nero, who actually did succeed Augustus.

The Emperor's wife.

So it is in § xii. But perhaps here it means, "I wish you had more sense, Fabius!"

Adopting the reading of Reiske.

Reading φορυτοῦ or φορυτῶν, as Wyttenbach.

Reading κατέχειν δύνανται with Reiske.

See Sophocles, Fragm. 162.

Compare "Moralia," p. 177 A; Horace, "Satires," i. 7. 3: "Omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus."