This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Tacitus' Annals I. Sections 3–7, 11–14, 16–30 and 46–49 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for students reading the text for the first time while also perfectly encapsulating the interest of the longer work and inspiring further study of it. A detailed introduction explains points of historical and stylistic interest. Annals I starts with the death of Augustus and the beginning of Tiberius' principate. Tacitus chronicles the uneasy and unprecedented transition from one to the other, in the context of a political elite shaken by years of civil war and unsure as to how best to protect their own interests and the stability Augustus had brought to Rome. With damning references to the servile nature of the new regime, Tacitus vividly paints scenes of confused senatorial debates, and Tiberius' own uncertainty over his own position and the best decisions to make. Opportunistic rebellions in the army are described with dramatic brilliance.

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a, ab	by, from
abdo, abdere, abdidi, abditum	to hide away
abicio, abicere, abieci, abiectum	to throw away
abnuo -nuere -nui -nuitum	to refuse, deny
aboleo -olere -olevi -olitum	to wipe away
abscedo -cedere -cessi -cessum	to leave
abstrusus -a -um	secret, hard to fathom
absum, abesse, afui	to be away from
ac	and
accedo -cedere -cessi -cessum	to approach
accendo, accendere, accendi, accensum	to inflame (metaphorically – to enrage)
accido, accidere, accidi	to happen
accio, accire, accivi, accitum	to summon
accipio, accipere, accepi, acceptum	to receive
acer, acris, acre	sharp, keen
Actiacus -a -um	relating to the Battle of Actium
ad	to, towards, for the purpose of
adcelero -are	to hasten
adclamo -are	shout approval
adcresco -crescere -crevi -cretum	to grow, rise
adcurro -currere -curri -cursum	to run to
adcursus -us, m	onrush
additus -us, m	addition

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Index of place names
Index of members of the Imperial Household
Index of other named Romans
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