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Tacitus, Annals, 12.59.1

nan  Claudius, in contrast, was being forced to a display of sheer cruelty, still by the machinations of Agrippina. Statilius Taurus, whose wealth was famous, and whose gardens aroused her cupidity, she ruined with an accusation brought by Tarquitius Priscus. He had been the legate of Taurus when he was governing Africa with proconsular powers, and now on their return charged him with a few acts of malversation, but more seriously with addiction to magical superstitions. Without tolerating longer a lying accuser and an unworthy humiliation, Taurus took his own life before the verdict of the senate. Tarquitius, none the less, was expelled from the curia — a point which the Fathers, in their detestation of the informer, carried in the teeth of Agrippina's intrigues.

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1. Tacitus, Annals, 1.28.2, 1.29.3, 2.32.2-2.32.3, 3.22.2, 12.52.3, 12.61 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 12.61.  He next proposed to grant immunity to the inhabitants of Cos. of their ancient history he had much to tell:— "The earliest occupants of the island had," he said, "been Argives — or, possibly, Coeus, the father of Latona. Then the arrival of Aesculapius had introduced the art of healing, which attained the highest celebrity among his descendants" — here he gave the names of the descendants and the epochs at which they had all flourished. "Xenophon," he observed again, "to whose knowledge he himself had recourse, derived his origin from the same family; and, as a concession to his prayers, the Coans ought to have been exempted from all forms of tribute for the future and allowed to tet their island as a sanctified place subservient only to its god." There can be no doubt that a large number of services rendered by the islanders to Rome, and of victories in which they had borne their part, could have been cited; but Claudius declined to disguise by external aids a favour which, with his wonted complaisance, he had accorded to an individual.

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astrologers, expulsions of	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
augustus (octavian), signs at death	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
christians	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
claudius, antiquarianism of	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
claudius, wives of	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
cos	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
decline, of religion	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
eclipse (lunar) as sign, non-prodigial	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
eclipse (lunar) as sign	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
foreign cults	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
gardens	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
ira deorum	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
italy	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
lollia paulina	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
magic	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
magic and magi	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
messalina	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
narrative	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
omens, in tacitus	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
omens	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
pax deorum	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
prodigies, in historiography	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
prodigies, in tacitus	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
prodigies, under tiberius (lack of)	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
rationality	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
religio, religio, ritual, of	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
senate	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
statilius taurus	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
superstitio'	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
superstitio, used of magic	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
superstitio	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
valerius asiaticus	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272
vitellius, as caesar	Davies, Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods (2004) 165
xenophon (doctor of claudius)	Shannon-Henderson, Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s (2019) 272