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and Tacitus impeach Marius Priscus, proconsul of
 | | | |Africa. Fronto Catius defends him. Cf. Plin. ii. Epist.
 | | | |xi. The case was tried before Trajan in person. Cf.
 | | | |Sat. i. 47, "Et hic damnatus inani Judicio; quid enim
 | | | |salvis infamia nummis? Exul ab octavâ Marius bibit, et
 | | | |fruitur Diis iratis." And viii. 120, "Quum tenues nuper
 | | | |Marius discinxerit Afros."
 | | | |
 | | | |Pliny's Panegyric, in his consulship.
 | | | |
 | | | |Death of S. John.
 | | | |
 | | | |«Martial returns to Bilbilis. Twelfth book of Epigrams.»
 | | | |
 |220| 101| 854|First Dacian war. "Trajanus primus aut solus etiam
 | | | |vires Romanas trans _Istrum_ propagavit," Victor, p.
 | | | |319; perhaps alluded to, Sat. viii. 169, "Syriæque
 | | | |tuendis Amnibus et Rheno atque _Istro_."
 | | | |
 | | | |Isæus flourishes. "Magna Isæum fama præcesserat: major
 | | | |inventus est. Summa est facultas, copia, ubertas."
 | | | |Plin. ii. Epist. 3. Cf. Sat. iii. 73 (with the
 | | | |Scholiasts), "Sermo promptus et Isæo torrentior."
 | | | |
 | | 103| 856|Victories in Dacia. Peace granted to Decebalus.
 | | | |
 | | | |Trajan triumphs, and takes the name of "Dacicus." (Cf.
 | | | |110.) «Pliny arrives at Bithynia.»
 | | | |
 | | 104| 857|Second Dacian war. Trajan takes the command.
 | | | |
 | | | |Hadrian serves. "Primæ legioni Minerviæ præpositus."
 | | | |Spartian. Hadr. 3.
 | | | |
 | | | |«Martial sends his 12th book to Rome. Vid. Ep. 18.
 | | | |Pliny's letter about the Christians.»
 | | | |
 |221| 105| 858|Stone bridge over the Danube, by which Trajan conquers
 | | | |the Dacians.
 | | | |
 | | 106| 859|Death of Decebalus. Dacia becomes a Roman province.
 | | | |
 | | | |Conquest of Arabia Petræa. 2d triumph of Trajan.
 | | | |
 | | 107| 860|Trajan's public works. Vid. Dio, lxviii. 15, τά τε
 | | | |ἕλη τὰ Πόντινα ὡδοποίησε λίθῳ. κ. τ. λ. Cf. iii. 307,
 | | | |"Armato quoties tutæ custode tenentur Et _Pomptina_
 | | | |palus et Gallinaria pinus."
 | | | |
 | | 110| 863|This road is finished. «Plutarch's Lives.»
 | | | |
 | | | |The _coins_ of Trajan of this year bear the words,
 | | | |"GERMANICUS, DACICUS." vi. 205, "_Dacicus_, et scripto
 | | | |radiat _Germanicus_ auro."
 | | | |
 | | 112| 865|Hadrian Archon at Athens.
 | | | |
 |223| 113| 866|The column of Trajan erected (cf. Dio, lxviii. 16), to
 | | | |which some think there is an allusion in the line, x.
 | | | |136, "Summo tristis captivus in arcu."
 | | | |
 | | 114| 867|Trajan's expedition to the East, against the Armenians
 | | | |and Parthians. He proceeds in the autumn through Athens
 | | | |and Seleucia to Antioch.
 | | | |
 | | 115| 868|Earthquake at Antioch, in January or February, in which
 | | | |the consul, M. Vergilianus Pedo, perished. Dio, lxviii.
 | | | |24, 25.
 | | | |
 | | | |In the spring Trajan marches to Armenia. Sat. vi. 411,
 | | | |"Nutare urbes, subsidere terram."
 | | | |
 | | | |«Martyrdom of S. Ignatius.»
 | | | |
 | | 116| 869|Trajan enters Ctesiphon, and takes the title of
 | | | |"Parthicus." Sat. vi. 407, "Instantem regi Armenio
 | | | |Parthoque."
 | | | |
 |224| 117| 870|Trajan reaches Selinus in Cilicia, and dies in August,
 | | | |in his 63d year.
 | | | |
 | | | |Hadrian, at Antioch, succeeds, in consequence of a
 | | | |fictitious adoption managed by Plotina. Cf. Gibbon,
 | | | |vol. i. p. 130. To this there is supposed to be
 | | | |an allusion in Sat. i. 40, "Optima summi Nunc via
 | | | |processus vetulæ vesica beatæ."
 | | | |
 | | 118| 871|Hadrian comes to Rome.
 | | | |
 | | | |This is sixty years after the consulship of Fonteius.
 | | | |Cf. A.D. 59. The thirteenth Satire was therefore
 | | | |probably written this year. l. 17, "Stupet hæc qui jam
 | | | |post terga reliquit Sexaginta annos, Fonteio consule
 | | | |natus." The common story is, that Calvinus, to whom
 | | | |this Satire is addressed, was _three years_ Juvenal's
 | | | |senior.
 | | | |
 | | | |Probably the lines in Satire iii., from 60-113, are
 | | | |an interpolation at a period subsequent to the first
 | | | |composition of the Satire, and refer to this period.
 | | | |Hadrian brought with him from _Antioch_ to Rome many
 | | | |foreigners of all professions. Cf. iii. 62, "Jampridem
 | | | |Syrus in Tiberim defluxit _Orontes_." Among these
 | | | |he particularly favored Epictetus of Hierapolis in
 | | | |Phrygia, Favorinus of Arelate in Gaul, and Dionysius
 | | | |of Miletus. To one of these Juvenal may refer in
 | | | |Sat. iii. 75, "Quemvis hominem secum attulit ad nos
 | | | |Grammaticus, Rhetor, Geometres, Pictor, Aliptes, Augur,
 | | | |Schœnobates, Medicus, Magus, omnia novit, Ad summum
 | | | |non Maurus erat nec Sarmata nec Thrax," _et seq._
 | | | |Cf. Spartian. Hadrian, c. 5, and especially c. 16,
 | | | |where he says, "In summâ familiaritate Epictetum et
 | | | |Heliodorum, philosophos, et _grammaticos, Rhetores_,
 | | | |musicos, _Geometras, pictores_, astrologos habuit:
 | | | |præ cæteris eminente Favorino," where the order is
 | | | |rather remarkable. Dionysius of Miletus, moreover,
 | | | |was a disciple of Isæus (cf. A.D. 101), l. 73,
 | | | |"Ingenium velox audacia perdita, sermo Promptus et Isæo
 | | | |torrentior."
 | | | |
 | | | |Hadrian, after a four months' consulship, proceeded to
 | | | |Campania, and thence to Gaul, Germany, and Britain:
 | | | |Juvenal therefore might safely publish this in the
 | | | |emperor's absence.
 | | | |
 | | 119| 872|Hadrian consul with Junius Rusticus.
 | | | |
 | | | |This is most probably the Junius mentioned Sat. xv.
 | | | |27, "Nuper Consule Junio gesta." Cf. Salmas., Plin.
 | | | |Exercit. p. 320.
 | | | |
 | | 120| 873|Hadrian's progress through the provinces.
 | | | |
 | | | |He builds the wall in Britain: "Compositis in Britanniâ
 | | | |rebus, transgressus in Galliam." Spartian. c. 10. This
 | | | |may be alluded to, Sat. ii. 160, 161. Cf. Sat. xv. 111.
 | | | |
 | | | |«Plutarch, æt. 74.»
 | | | |
 |225| 121| 874|Birth of M. Aurelius.
 | | | |
 | | 122| 875|Hadrian at Athens.
 | | | |
 | | | |Artemidorus Capito, the physician, in great repute with
 | | | |Hadrian. It is not impossible that he may be alluded to
 | | | |under the name of "Heliodorus." Cf. Sat. vi. 373.
 | | | |
 | | 124| 877|The eleventh Satire may perhaps be assigned to about
 | | | |this date. It was written when Juvenal was advanced in
 | | | |years. l. 203, "Nostra bibat vernum contracta cuticula
 | | | |solem."
 | | | |
 | | | |The excitement about the games in the circus (cf.
 | | | |Gibbon, chap. xl.) was as great as in the days of
 | | | |Domitian; and the "green" appears at this time to have
 | | | |been a victorious color. Compare Sat. xi. 195, "Totam
 | | | |hodie Romam circus capit, et fragor aurem Percutit,
 | | | |eventum _viridis_ quo colligo _panni_;" with the
 | | | |inscription in Gruter, quoted in Clinton (in ann.),
 | | | |"Primum agitavit in factione _prasinâ_." «C

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