THE

WORKS

OF

CORNELIUS TACITUS;

WITH

AN ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS,

NOTES, SUPPLEMENTS, &c.

BY

ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.

Præcipuum munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis
dictis factisque ex posteritate et infamiâ metus sit.

TACITUS, Annales, iii. s. 65.

A NEW EDITION,

WITH THE AUTHOR'S LAST CORRECTIONS.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE;

F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; J. WALKER; R. LEA; LONGMAN,
HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; CADELL AND DAVIES;
J. MAWMAN; J. MURRAY; J. RICHARDSON; R. BALDWIN;
AND J. FAULDER.

1811.

1

CONTENTS.

BOOK XI.

1. THE condemnation and death of Valerius Asiaticus
and Poppaa, by the artifices of Messalina. IV. Two
Roman knights put to death for a dream. V. The
iniquity of the public advocates. A motion in the
senate to revive the Cincian law, which prohibited the
taking of fees. Debates on that subject. The legal
fee ascertained, and beyond that all to be deemed
guilty of extortion. VIII. Commotions among the
Parthians: Bardanes put to death, and Gotarzes
fixed on the throne. XI. The secular games exhibited
at Rome, in the year eight hundred from the founda-
tion of the city. XII. The criminal loves of Mes-
salina and Caius Silius. XIII. Claudius ignorant of
his wife's adultery. He discharges his censorial func-
tions. He adds three letters to the Roman alphabet.
An account of the origin of letters. XV. The college
of augurs put under new regulations. XVI. The
Cheruscans send from Germany to desire a king from
Rome. Italicus, the nephew of Arminius, is sent,
and well received: a party formed against him: a
civil war ensues: he proves victorious. XVIII. Cor-
bulo sent to command in Lower Germany. He intro-
duces the strictest discipline; subdues the Chaucians,
and meditates further conquests. He puts Gannascus,
a German chief, to death. He receives orders from
Claudius to repass the Rhine. XX. Curtius Rufus,