#LatinForTheDay

"At Romae ruere in servitium consules, patres, eques. Quanto quis inlustrior, tanto magis falsi ac festinantes, vultuque composito, ne laeti excessu principis neu tristiores primordio, lacrimas, gaudium, questus, adulationem miscebant."

Tacitus, Annals 1.7.1

& #39;Yet at Rome the consuls, the senators, the equestrians rushed headlong into servitude. The more illustrious each was, the more hasty the hypocrisy: with faces set - so as to not show too much joy at the death of a Princeps, nor too much gloom at the outset of another& #39;s reign...

& #39;...they blended their tears with joy, their mourning with sycophancy.& #39;

Here Tacitus bemoans the actions of the leading citizens of Rome in terms of their hypocrisy in reacting to Augustus& #39; death in AD 14.

The Image at the head of this thread is a photograph of the Prima Porta Augustus, discovered on the Via Flaminia on 20 April, 1863 (Musei Vaticani: MV.2290.0.0).

Link - https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.2290.0.0

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